#!usr/local/bin/perl

print ("Enter filename to search to punctuation characters: ");
$path=<STDIN>;
print ("\n");
open(DATA, "<$path") || die "Couldn't open $path for reading: $!\n";
while (<DATA>)
{
    while (s/([\041-\057]|[\72-\100]|[\133-\140]|[\173-\176])(.*)/$2/)
    {
        $char = $1;
        $wordHash{$char}++;
    }
}
while ( ($punctuation, $count) = each(%wordHash) )
{    
    $wordArray[$i] = "$punctuation\t$count";
    $i++;
    print ("$punctuation\t$count\n");
}

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hi, the code above searches through a text file and spits out how many of each puntuation character it finds (according to each ASCII octet i have put in the regular expression bit). im after a different way of doing this second loop. so that instead of actually printing out the character it finds it prints out the word equivalent, ie "." equals fullstop, and "," equals comma. i guess id have to use some sort of hash to create a database of ,=comma and .=fullstop and (=open brackets etc. but im not quite sure how to do this... and then relate it to what it finds in the punctuation search. ie - what it does now: 
?     1
.     6
,     5
(     10
)     10
;     21
$     19

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what i want it to look like: 
question mark     1
fullstop          6
comma             5
open bracket      10
close bracket     10
colon             21
dollar sign       19

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cheers, PS sorry about the ambiguity of my last post!

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