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#!/usr/bin/perl --
#~
#~
#~
#~ # perltidy -olq  -csc -csci=10 -cscl="sub : BEGIN END if " -otr -op
+r -ce -nibc -i=4 -pt=0   "-nsak=*"
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;    # error checking for open/close...

Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );

sub Main {
    my( @files ) = @_;
    if( not @files ) {
        my $lines = q{ And "then" something "happened" on "the first
and second
and third
lines" and then it was over};
        @files = ( \'"the boat"', \$lines, \"$lines $lines $lines" );
    }
    for my $file ( @files ) {
        print "## { $file }{ wordcount= ", Vote( $file ), " }\n";
    }
} ## end sub Main

sub Vote {
    my( $fyle ) = @_;

    open my( $wyld ), '<:raw', $fyle;

    my $in_quotes = 0;
    my $words     = 0;

    while( my $line = readline $wyld ) {
        pos( $line ) = 0;
      WORDCOUNTER:
        while( length( $line ) > pos( $line ) ) {
            $line =~ m{
                \G\s*\x22  # quote after optional whitespace
            }gxcs and do {
                $in_quotes = !$in_quotes;    ## flip it
                next WORDCOUNTER;
            };

            $in_quotes and $line =~ m{
                [^\x22\s]+ ## not quote or whitespace
            }gxcs and do {
                $words++;
                next WORDCOUNTER;
            };

            $line =~ m{
                \G[^\x22]+ ## not quote
            }gxcs and do {
                next WORDCOUNTER;
            };
        } ## end of WORDCOUNTER
    } ## end of readline

    return $words;
} ## end sub Vote

__END__
## { SCALAR(0xbb713c) }{ wordcount= 2 }
## { SCALAR(0xad05a4) }{ wordcount= 9 }
## { SCALAR(0x3f8fec) }{ wordcount= 27 }
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