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in thread Golf: Improve this guy's fail . . . please!

At the opposite end of the spectrum, reading in the whole file: 

local $/;
++$chars{$_} for <> =~ /\w/g

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(Trimmed: local$/;++$c{$_}for<>=~/\w/g)

It only accepts one file, though.

Update: 5 shorter, accepts multiple files, and doesn't mess with $/: 

++$chars{$_} for map /\w/g, <>

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(Trimmed: ++$c{$_}for map/\w/g,<>)

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Re^3: Golf: Improve this guy's fail . . . please!
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Jul 01, 2009 at 00:38 UTC
    I borrowed your idea and made something short and very ugly which does the whole job including percentages and total. I even added a count of distinct characters: 
    ++$t,++$c{$_}for map/\w/g,<>;
print$_,"\t",$c{$_},"\t",$c{$_}/$t*100,$/for sort keys %c;
print"Distinct: ".keys(%c)."\tTotal: $t\n";

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    I doubt I'd call that an "improvement", at least with a straight face. It could be cleaned up pretty easily, though.

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      It could be cleaned up pretty easily, though.

      Then do it! No good leaving lousy code floating around... ;-)

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        But... but... it's golf! ;-)

        I guess adding a feature's not exactly in the spirit of golf, though. More golfed: 

        ++$t,++$c{$_}for map/\w/g,<>;
print$_,' ',$c{$_},' ',$c{$_}/$t*100,$/for sort keys%c;
print"Total: $t\n"

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        So now that that's out of the way, how about still short but somewhat easier to read? 

        ++$t, ++$c{$_} for map /\w/g, <>;
for ( sort keys %c ) {
    $p = sprintf '%3.2f', $c{$_} / $t * 100;
    printf "%-5s%5d%7s%%\n", $_, $c{$_}, $p;
}
print 'Distinct: ' . (scalar keys %c) . "\tTotal: $t\n"

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