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Plural output with if statement

   





#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;

use strict;



my @words = split ('\s+', <>);   

my $count = scalar (@words);



print "There ";

if ($count == 1) {

    print "is";

} else {

    print "are";

}

print " $count word";



unless ($count == 1) {

    print "s";

}

print " in the text \n";

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