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in thread Top five words by occurrence

last if $top--;
In your first example this would evaluate to 'last if true', thus exiting the loop before the first print statement would get called.
Shouldn't that be last unless $top--; or am I overlooking something?

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Re^3: Top five words by occurrence
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 19, 2005 at 14:05 UTC
    aye, you're right.