#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; while (my $str = ) { my $odd = $str =~ tr/1// & 1; print $str,"has an ",$odd?"odd":"even"," number of 1's",$/; } __DATA__ 110101010110111010101 100000000000000000001 101010101010101010101 110000000000000000011 110100000000000000000 11