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To do this, you have to parse out each word in the input stream. We'll
pretend that by word you mean chunk of alphabetics, hyphens, or
apostrophes, rather than the non-whitespace chunk idea of a word given in
the previous question:
while (<>) {
while ( /(\b[^\W_\d][\w'-]+\b)/g ) { # misses "`sheep'"
$seen{$1}++;
}
}
while ( ($word, $count) = each %seen ) {
print "$count $word\n";
}
If you wanted to do the same thing for lines, you wouldn't need a regular
expression:
while (<>) {
$seen{$_}++;
}
while ( ($line, $count) = each %seen ) {
print "$count $line";
}
If you want these output in a sorted order, see the section on Hashes.
Source: Perl FAQ: Regexps Copyright: Copyright (c) 1997 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. |
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