Richard Lee wrote:
Can you please tell me how to shorten this?
my @an = split(//);
my @num = grep { $_ eq ':' } @an ;
I was trying to see how many : occur in variable but didn't know how to
do it fast so i did it like above...
I would like to see as many way different ways to get this done if possible
thank you!!
$var1 = root:x:123:/root:
trying to see how many times : occurs in $var1..... and I could only do
it above way....
my $count = $var1 =~ tr/://;
John
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