Just as a little background, I am working on a BioInformatics program that
runs on large (about 300 meg) text files. I am using a filehandle to open
and load it into an array. Then I use the join command to read the array
into a scalar variable in order to be in a workable form for my
computation
Does anyone know of any sort of a function or method in perl that returns
the number of times a search string exists in a scalar. Say, how many "a's"
are there in this sentence? I am able to write it myself, but I was
wondering if Perl had an inherent function for cleaner operation. I tried
look
