I'm working through some of these "Seekers" questions as a learning tool. This is my first perlmonks post. :)
To print one "word" per line, stripping out punctuation at the end, try this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $filename = shift;
open  my $TEST_FH, '<', "$filename" or die "Cannot open file $filename
+\n$!\n";
while (<$TEST_FH>) { 
    chomp;
    my @words = split;
    my @pmatch = grep {/p/i} @words;
        if (@pmatch) {
        foreach (@pmatch) {
            s/[^\w]$//;
            print "$_\n";
        }
    }
}
close ($TEST_FH);

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In reply to Re: Help with split() function by wrinkles
in thread Help with split() function by negzero7

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