Richard müller wrote: > > Hi, Hello,
> I'm a very newbie with perl. I have a text file and want to read it line > by line and split it into words: It depends on how you define "words". > my @fields = split / /, $_; > - so far no problem. Are you sure? Using "split / /, $_" does not do what you seem to think it does. Better to use split with no arguments. my @fields = split; > Now I have to count the words in the line. This I could not achieve. > I#m sure it is very simple - but I did not find the suitable command my $count = @fields; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]