On 2012-08-20 22:39, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
just want to find out in how many records string was found:my $count=0; seek $tmp_FH,0,0; while (<$tmp_FH>) { my $line=$_;chomp($line); if ($line=~m/\"$str\"/) {$count++;} #in the file $str string would be in quotes.... }
What if the string is in a line twice? What if the string contains regex meta characters? (like a dot or an asterisk) Alternative: seek $fh, 0, SEEK_SET; my $count; $count +=()= /\Q"$str"/g while <$fh>; -- Ruud -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
