GETTYSBURG: Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this cont

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GETTYSBURG: Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Perl Scripting CSCI 2215 Section Name: Date: Extra Credit (100 pts) Instructions: Submit an electronic copy of the assignment to the Dropbox Create a Perl script named extracredit.pl. The script must perform the following: Check that the data file "gettysburg.txt" exists before opening it for read. Exit the script if the file cannot be read. If the file exists, then open the data file and an output file. Read through the data file using a while loop or any iteration structure and check for the following 1) How many characters there are in the file 2) How many words are in the file 3) How many paragraph there is in the file (if any) Print to the terminal and an output file with the information requested above. Close both files

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The code is as follows:

open(FILE, "<gettysburg.txt") or die "File could not be opened: $!";

my ($paragraphs, $words, $characters) = (0,0,0);

while (<FILE>) {
$paragraphs++;
$characters += length($_);
$words += scalar(split(/s+/, $_));
}

print("characters=$characters words=$words paragraphs=$paragraphs ");

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