Character Count

[Rob Torres]

Hello,
I am writing a simple perl script to count the # of characters in a given
field.  At the command line I can write >>wc -m somefile.txt, and get the
total character count.  But in the script I am splitting a text file and
then doing a count on an element of the array.
code snippet:
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while (<FILE>)
{
   chomp;
   (@fields) = split(/\t/);
   $count = wc -m $fields[12];
   print "$count\n";
}
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Here is the error I receive when I check the syntax.
perl -c count.pl
Unrecognized file test: -m at count.pl line 20.

I've tried many different ways of writing this, but can't seem to get it
working.  Any ideas/help?
Thanks,
Rob
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