What is the perl command for counting words? I have a scalar assigned. Provide an example for best

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1. Microanalyst

   On 2006-08-09 15:12:36

   
   
   Counting the Words in a Text Use wc with the `-w' option to specify that just the number of words be counted and output. To output the number of words in the file `story', type: $ wc -w story [RET] To output counts for several files, first concatenate the files with cat, and then pipe the output to wc. To output the combined number of words for all the files with a `.txt' file name extension in the current directory, type: $ cat *.txt | wc -w [RET] more info at the site below

2. sterno73

   On 2006-08-09 18:25:34

   
   
   my @list = split(/\s*/, $your_scalar); my $word_count = $#list;