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Re: Getting the count of a particular alphabet using subroutine

by suhailck (Friar)
on Aug 06, 2010 at 06:08 UTC ( [id://853323]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Getting the count of a particular alphabet using subroutine

To count the occurence of an alphabet, you can use tr as in the below code,

perl -le '$string=q[ttc actssat tb];$count=$string=~tr/t//;print $coun
+t'
5

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~suhail

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Re^2: Getting the count of a particular alphabet using subroutine
by changma_ha (Sexton) on Aug 06, 2010 at 06:28 UTC

    Thanx suhailck... now my problem is solved.

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