Re: Perl Idioms Explained - my $count = () = /.../g

by zshzn (Hermit)

on Feb 06, 2006 at 00:33 UTC ( #528120=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Something else worth noting is that in the event of counting the amount of single characters tr() can be used.

my $str = "here are some words";
my $count = $str =~ tr/e/e/;
print "We sure do have a lot of e characters: $count\n";
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