# legacystats to calculate how many of each character is in a file use open IN => ":raw"; open IN, "ChuonNathDict_Saw.txt" ; @onebytearray = (); $#onebytearray = 256; while () { while ( /(.)/g ) { @onebytearray[ord($1)] = @onebytearray[ord($1)] + 1; } } for (my $character = 0; $character < 256 ; $character++) { print OUT " $character ", chr(9), "= @onebytearray[$character]", chr(9), chr(9), "<", chr($character),">","\n"; } close IN; close OUT;