On Nov 19, Rob said: >This is what I finally came up with, but it too seems rather clunky. > >my $cnt = 0; >$_ = $notes; >$cnt = tr/\n//;
Yeah; why not: my $count = ($notes =~ tr/\n//); -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]