Re: [MacPerl] Porting a Perl Program

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

> I have written a very small program in PERL to read in HTML files from a
> remote source and then count the 5 most frequent words.

You don't say how many unique words are coming in, but let's assume that
there are only a few hundred thousand.  If so, you could index a hash
with the incoming words, incrementing the corresponding position as each
word comes in.  At the end, walk through the hash and get the top N counts.

-r

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