selecting short words

Hi to all,

i need to extract from a list of words (in a single column) anotherl list containing only the words of 5 or less chars.

I wrote this script, but it doesn't work:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while (<>)
{
print "$_" if /^\w{,5}/;
}

someone can tell me why it does not work?

Thanks all,

alladr


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