The following is based on the example from the docs: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::ExtractWords qw(words_count words_list);

my ($str, $str_test);

$str = q|test test the an an words_count function|;
$str_test = $str;

my %hash = ();
my %config = (
  minwordlen => 3,
  maxwordlen => 7,
  locale     => "en_US.ISO_8859-1",
);

words_count(\%hash, $str_test, \%config);

for my $key (sort keys %hash){
  print "$key -> $hash{$key}\n";
}

$str_test = $str;
print "\n";
my @list = ();
words_list(\@list, $str_test, \%config);

for my $element (@list){
  print "$element\n";
}

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output: 
an -> 2
function -> 1
test -> 2
the -> 1
words_count -> 1

test
test
the
an
an
words_count
function

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I expected words that had a min length of 3 and a max length of 7 or is it just me :-)

WinXP, Activestate 5.8, T::WE v0.07

In reply to Text::ExtractWords minwordlen and maxwordlen by wfsp

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