A simple word-count program. : Split « String « Perl

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A simple word-count program.

      
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

$wordcount = 0; 
$line = <STDIN>; 
while ($line ne "") { 
    chop ($line); 
    @array = split(/ /, $line); 
    $wordcount += @array; 
    $line = <STDIN>; 
} 
print ("Total number of words: $wordcount\n");










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