On Jun 22, Chas Owens said:

>On 22 Jun 2001 17:11:42 -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>> On Jun 22, Bradford Ritchie said:
>> 
>> >Does anyone know how to count the number of times a regex (global)
>> >matches?
>> 
>> Either:
>> 
>>   $count += while /regex/g;
>
>I think you meant:
>
>$count++ while /regex/g;

Yeah.  My finger slipped off the shift key too soon.  Um, or not.  I
usually write $count++.  Oh well.  I'm a moron.

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