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Old 12-23-2014, 12:25 PM   #1
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word count in perl

How can I count words in text by using for loop in perl?
 
Old 12-23-2014, 12:51 PM   #2
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what have you tried and where are you stuck ?
 
Old 12-23-2014, 01:37 PM   #3
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I have tried this:

foreach my $str (split){
$count{$str}++;
}

foreach my $str(sort keys %count) {
print Output "$str $count{$str}\n";
}

But I want to write it using for loop
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