On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:12:22PM +0530, Jaffer Shaik wrote: > I have the below strig > > $str = "abckdweqadidkaaaaisdikda"; > > In the above string, I want to count the occurrences of character 'a', > i.e I should get count of a = 7. > > How can i achieve this in Perl.
$count = $str =~ tr/a//; See "Regexp Quote-Like Operators" in perldoc perlop. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
