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I am trying to put a script together that will go through a text file and show me the top 5 words sorted my occurrence. Here is where I am at:

while (<>) {
    chop;
    my @words = split;
    foreach $wd (@words) {
        next if length($wd) < 5;
        $count{$wd}++;
    }
}

foreach $w (keys %count) {
    print "$count{$w} $w\n";
}

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As you can see, I am only interested in words over 5 characters in length. I am unsure how to go about sorting this by number of occurrence. Also, I am having problems with punctuation showing up in my results. I have an example below: 

2 usurpations,
2 purpose
1 people.
1 obstructed
1 formidable
1 obstructing
1 uncomfortable,

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Is this because I am using split? Is there a better way to go about this. I am sure I will start missing words that have apostrophes too. Also, how should I sort this? Then how can I take only the top 5?

Any help or advice is appreciated.

Many thanks,
ghettofinger

In reply to Top five words by occurrence by ghettofinger

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