ExtractWords(3)

💖 ExtractWords — the manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie so this is Text::ExtractWords, a Perl extension for extracting words from strings. it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, page ExtractWords(3), and honestly? it's giving ✨text-processing icon✨. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Text::ExtractWords — Perl extension for extract words from strings 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the whole vibe, copy-paste ready, no edits, no notes:

  use Text::ExtractWords qw(words_count words_list);

  my %hash = ();
  my %config = (
    minwordlen => 2,
    maxwordlen => 32,
    locale     => "pt_PT.ISO_8859-1",
  );
  words_count(\%hash, "test the words_count function", \%config);

  my @list = ();
  words_list(\@list, "test the words_list function", \%config);

see how it's just… chef's kiss? two functions, one config hash, done. periodt 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the aim of this module is to extract the words from the texts or mails to identify spam. but — and this is the part where it gets fun — it can be used for another purpose. it's not a one-trick pony, it's a main character 🌈

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👑 METHODS 👑

💜 words_count(HASHREF, STRING, HASHREF)

Extract words from a string to hash reference and count the number of occurrences for each word.

so you hand it a hash ref, it fills that hash up with words and how many times each one showed up. frequency check, vibe check, same thing 💅

🍓 words_list(ARRAYREF, STRING, HASHREF)

Extract words from a string to array reference.

same energy, different container: you get a list back instead of a tally. simple as that, no cap ✨

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Henrique Dias <hdias@aesbuc.pt> — iconic, we stan 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• perl(1).

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💀 no notes. this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, from the ExtractWords(3) page — mwah, go extract some words, you got this 🌟💖