And does the sub receive the file correctly? When I run the script it gives the same answer(total words) for each text file, which is incorrect.
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sub countWords {
my $fname=join("/",@_);
open FIN,"< $fname" or die "$fname:$!";
my @lines=<FIN>;
chomp @lines;
close FIN;
my $count=0;
foreach my $line(@lines){
map { $count++ } split (/[\s\t\n]+/,$line);
}
printf "There are %d words in %s\n",$count,$fname;
}
You are not counting anything in your sub at all. You actually have to read the file in order to count the words in it.
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