On Jun 22, Bradford Ritchie said:
>Does anyone know how to count the number of times a regex (global)
>matches?
Either:
$count += while /regex/g;
or
$count = () = /regex/g;
As for the "make it list context" function, here it is:
sub list_context { @_ }
Now you can say
$count = list_context(/regex/g);
>Does anyone know why m//g only returns true on success instead of
>returning the number of matches like s///g and tr/// do.
//g returns true/false in scalar context, and the information about the
matches in list context.
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