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

Following from a brain dump I made on IRC, and since nobody here seems to have looked at perl's command line switches: 
#!/usr/bin/env perl -aF'' -nl
$t += @F; 
$c{$_}++ for @F; 
END { 
    printf("%s\t%d\t%.3f\n", $_, $c{$_}, $c{$_} / $t) for keys %c; 
    print "Total: $t" 
}
Of course the simplest solution from IRC was say `wc -c @ARGV`

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Re^2: Golf: Improve this guy's fail . . . please!
by grizzley (Chaplain) on Jul 01, 2009 at 08:15 UTC
    What about 
    #!/usr/bin/env perl -n0
$t++,$c{$_}++ for /./g;
printf("%s\t%d\t%.3f\n", $_, $c{$_}, $c{$_} / $t) for keys %c; 
print "Total: $t\n"

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