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GNU's wc command exists for any major platform. Simply call it from inside your Perl application and let it do the heavy lifting.

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Re^2: stripped punctuation
by thealienz1 (Pilgrim) on Oct 06, 2005 at 21:21 UTC
    This does a total word count to my understanding. I am looking for individual word counts. I did not mention that though, but thanks anyways.