On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:19:57PM +0200, Luis Motta Campos wrote: > Do I win extra points for using a /e regexp? :-) Yes, but you lose them again for using $&... > perl -nle 's{\S+}{$w{$&}++;}eg}{print"$_,$w{$_}"for sort keys%w' Your ; inside the s{}{} is superfluous /joel