On 04/09/07, Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/3/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the best way to count the number of times that a character > > appears in a string? > > Is there a way to do it without the intermediate array? > > Yes. > > my $count = () = $string =~ /a/g;
Yep - someone already mentioned the goatse oprator. (It took me a second to understand the goatse connection...) But did anyone notice the weird performance problem i posted earlier?.. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
