Re: Help with accepting inputs, wordcount, and print to a file

Alternative solution:

Count all words in the whole of the file and store the counts in a hash
Extract from the hash only those words for which you need to return the count

No need to use multiple regexes to check for the words. This solution is very fast: checking for words in the whole of "Hamlet" took less than 1 second.

I have hidden my suggested solution in the "spoiler". First try it yourself and then check my solution.

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