I have the following PERL script for manipulating a text file and measuring sentence length. 

foreach $sentence(@sentences) {
#print FILE "$sentence\n";
@words = split(/[^\w'a-zA-Z0-9_'-?]/,$sentence);
$Counter =0;
foreach $word(@words){
$Counter = $Counter+1;
print ("$word\n");
}
$sentence_count{($Counter)} = $sentence_count{($Counter)}+1;
}
while (($sentence_count,$word_count) = each(%sentence_count)) {
    print ("There are $word_count sentences of $sentence_count words\n
+"); 
    }
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And for some reason it counts a slightly different number of words! But not like one less or one more, it's not at all consistent!! WHY oh WHY will it not count the numbers of words correctly??? Can anyone help me? Am I doing something REALLY dumb?? Katy M

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