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Your regex "$word =~ s/^\w\x\//g;" is invalid.

you probably want: 

  $word=~s/[^\w]//g; # Eliminate non-word chars

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Your re-initilazation of "%hash=()" within the loop makes the hash useless.

Declare it outside the loop, and add data to it using 

  $hash{$word}++;  # Get a count of the word

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Later , you can get a list of words found by accessing: 
   keys (%hash)

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Please try to follow davido's excellent advice in response to your previous question on the same subject.

             I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
                   -SNL

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Re^2: hash to count words
by underoathed (Initiate) on Sep 13, 2012 at 14:46 UTC

    So here is what i have for code so far for the hash.

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
open (IN, $file) or die "Cannot open file '$file' : $!\n;
$line = <IN>;
@array = split ( ' ', $line);
foreach $word (@array){
$word =~ s/^\w\w//g;
$word = lc ($word);
print "$word\n";}
$hash {$the}++;
$hash {$linux}++;
$hash {$hello}++;

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    What am I doing wrong?
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[d/l]
      Ok - I'll take a stab at answering your question "What am I doing wrong?" :
      • Not using 'strict'. (add "use strict;" to the top of your code)
      • Not using canonical "open" with local filehandle. (Try : open(my $f, "<", $file) or die "Cannot open '$file':$!";)
      • Not declaring variables (use my @array; (follows from "use strict"))
      • Not formatting/aligning your code for visibility
      • Not following advice (davido's code works for what you need)
      • Not reading how hashes work
      • Not closing the file handle you opened.
      • Not posing your question(s) clearly
      • Not showing what you expect as a result of your code
      • Not showing sample data
      The answer to the question in your previous post on the meaning of "/g" can be found by running "perldoc perlre".

                   I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
                         -SNL

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        Please allow an addition to the list: Not bothering to fix a previous post known to be problematic.

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