On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:31:48 +0400 Mendor <men...@yuuzukiyo.net> wrote:
> On 03/21/2012 11:27 PM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: > > I would like to count the number of regex match and then move onto the > > next iteration in the loop, I'm not able to get this program to work > > as intended. > $count = @{ [ $string =~ /(.*)/ ] }; I thing you need /g here and the more idiomatic way would be: my $count = () = ($string =~ /$RE/g); See: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/secret-perl-operators/#goatse Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Escape from GNU Autohell - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ Sesquipedallianism: making excessive use of long words. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/