amittleider:

Just for grins, here's another way to do it:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %charCount;
my $corpus = join('', <DATA>);

$corpus =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/d; # Map uppercase to lowercase
$corpus =~ tr/a-z//cd;   # Delete all but lowercase

$charCount{$_}++ for split //, $corpus;

for (sort keys %charCount) {
    print "$_ : $charCount{$_}\n";
}

__DATA__
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In reply to Re: Hash to count characters by roboticus
in thread Hash to count characters by amittleider

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