How do I count the characters, words, and lines in a file, using Perl?

Question

What is a good/best way to count the number of characters, words, and lines of a text file using Perl (without using wc)?

Answer 1

This may be helpful to Perl beginners. I tried to simulate MS word counting functionalities and added one more feature which is not shown using wc in Linux.

• number of lines
• number of words
• number of characters with space
• number of characters without space (wc will not give this in its output but Microsoft words shows it.)

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