#!/usr/local/bin/perl

$total = 0;
while ($line = <STDIN>) {
        $line =~ s/^[\t ]+//;
        $line =~ s/[\t ]\n+$//;
        next if (line eq "");
        @words = split(/[\t ]+/, $line);
        $total += @words;
}
print ("The total number of words is $total\n");
