"Merrychristmas!" wrote:
> 
> Sigh ! My mind simply refuses to work. What must I do to print the number of
> records $count in line 3.
> Thanks
> 
> 1.    @array = qw ( hello world hello how are you );
> 2.    $match = 'HEllo';
> 3.    print "Your search for $match returns $subroutine $count
> records<br>\n";
> 
> $subroutine = &count;
> sub count {
>         foreach $record (@array){
>                  if (grep /$match/i, $record) {
>                     print $record;
>                     $count++;
>                 };
>         };
> };


my @array = qw ( hello world hello how are you );
my $match = 'HEllo';
my $count = () = "@array" =~ /(\b\Q$match\E\b)/ig;
print "Your search for $match returns $count records<br>\n";



John
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use Perl;
program
fulfillment

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