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my $linecount = $. ;

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is code for a linecount...
how do i do a word count?

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Re^3: calculating lines
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2007 at 01:44 UTC

    $wc += split; within the while loop will do it. That's another case of default arguments.

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

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