#!/usr/bin/perl $/ = ""; $* = 1; while (<>) { #s/-\n//g; tr/A-Z/a-z/; @words = split(/\W*\s+\W*/, $_); # split into words foreach $word (@words) { $wordcount{$word}++; # count the words } } foreach $word (sort keys(%wordcount)) { printf "%8d\t\t%s\n", $wordcount{$word}, $word; }