On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:04:19PM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> =head1 ABSTRACT
>
> Provide a simple way of giving a count of matches of a pattern.
We already have this:
$count = () = m/foo/g;
> =head1 DESCRIPTION
>
> m//gt would be defined to do the match, and return the count of matches, this
> leaves all existing uses consistent and unaffected. /t is suggested for
> "counT", as /c is already taken. Using /t without /g would be result in
> only 0 or 1 being returned, which is nearly the existing syntax.
Better would be to redefine what m//g means in a scalar context.
$_ = "foofoofoofoofoofoofoo";
$count = m/foo/g;
1 is just as true as 7.
-Scott
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