or, to continue to discussion:
@s = $string =~ /,/g;
print scalar @s,"\n";
i don't know how to get count directly assigned to variable. someone?
On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 10:29 AM, Timothy Johnson wrote:
>
> Just for the sake of argument, you can also do it using the /g switch of
> m//.
>
> while($string =~ /,/g){
> $num++;
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tanton Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:06 AM
> To: Helen Dynah; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Variable question
>
>
> The tr operator will translate one character to another. For example:
>
> my $string = "abc";
> $string =~ tr/a/d/;
> print $string;
>
> prints
> dbc;
>
> However, it also returns the number of changes it did. So, if you don't
> give it anything to change to, you can count how many occurrences of a
> character were in the string.
>
> my $string = "a,b,c";
> my $num = $string =~ tr/,//;
> print $num;
>
> prints 2.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Helen Dynah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:52 PM
> Subject: Variable question
>
>
>>
>> Hi everybody. I am a new user and my first question to this list is
> probably a very simple one. I am trying to count the number of commas in
> a
> variable. The book I am learning from doesn't cover specific information
> like that. Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Helen
>>
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