Now that I have that under control, how do I print the output of the script to a file? I cannot figure it out. Thanks in advance and of course here is my coding.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
foreach $file (@ARGV) {
        open (IN, $file)  or die "Cannot open file '$file' : $!\n";
        while(<>) {
                $line = <IN>;
                @array = split (' ', $line);
                foreach $word (@array){
                        $word =~ s/[^\w\s]//g;
                        $word = lc ($word);
                        $wordcount{$word} += 1;
                        }
                }
        foreach $key (keys %wordcount) {
                print "Word: $key " . ($wordcount{$key}) . "\n";
        }
}
print  ("scriptOutput\n\n");
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