Hi to all Perl gurus:

I am just starting out with Perl and I am taking a class. My teacher is Laotian, so there is somewhat of a language barrier. He's also teaching in a method I am not used to...

So I was hoping someone who could point me in the right direction.

My assignment for class is to take text from a form (using textarea) and analyze the text. It needs to take each unique word and count them, then put them in a table with the number of occurences of each word. I can do the table. I have created the form. I've use if (param()) { to generate the form if there are no values from the form. I've created and assigned each value from the form to a variable:

my @params = param();
    my $name = param('fname');
    my $email = param('email');
    my $text2count = param('text2count');
    my $textcolor= param('textcolor');
    my $bgcolor= param('bgcolor');

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Now I am not sure where to go. I believe I should take the entered text (text2count) and turn it into an array. I'm not asking someone to write the code for me, but if anyone could help me, I would sure appreciate it. Thank you!

In reply to Just starting out with Perl by iridius

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