how to get # of occurances of a character in a given string

[vijay]

$str = "vijaya";

if my character is 'a' then it should get the number 2

 

[Martien verbruggen]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:22:57 -0000,

$str = "vijaya";

if my character is 'a' then it should get the number 2

And the actual question is:

how to get # of occurances of a character in a given string

which I has to get from the subject line.

One possible answer can be found in the perlop documentation, under the
tr/// operator.

my $count = $str =~ tr/a//;

Martien

 

[Ben Morrow]

$str = "vijaya";

if my character is 'a' then it should get the number 2

perldoc -q count

Ben

 

[John W. Krahn]

$str = "vijaya";

if my character is 'a' then it should get the number 2

$ perl -le'
my $str = "vijaya";
my $count = $str =~ tr/a//;
print $count;
'
2


perldoc -q count


John