> $description = "This is my description and it contains numerous __
> double underscore marks and __ these marks some special area in the
> field"
>
> What I want to do is to count/extract the amount of times these
> double underscore marks are used. Like in the above example it should
> show
Something like this may work:
my $num = $description =~ tr/__/__/;
See "perldoc perlop" for the "tr" operator.
-Sharad
-Original Message-
From: Sara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 11:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Counting the characters
There is a form field 'description' which is the input for CGI script.
$description = "This is my description and it contains numerous __ double underscore
marks and __ these marks some special area in the field"
What I want to do is to count/extract the amount of times these double underscore
