On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:13:48PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > 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//;
Note that this modifiees the string. You might want to do $count = $str =~ tr/a/a/; instead. --Dks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
