Execute the following on cmd line as follows
$./cnt.pl <string> ,
You can replace the comma (,) on the command line to find any other
character's occurrence in the string
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#!/usr/bin/perl

for(;$i<length($ARGV[0]);$i++)  {
        $str[i] = substr($ARGV[0],$i,1);
        if($str[i] eq $ARGV[1]) {
                $cnt++;
        }
}
print $cnt;
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Aman

PS: I am just a novice, so there might be quicker ways I yet don't know
of !!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Dynah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.

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