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//);

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