in reply to Count similar characters in a row
Try this,
perl -wle 'while(<>) { $count++ if "rrr" eq join "",(split)[1 .. 3] }; print $count' my_column_file.txt 3
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Re^2: Count similar characters in a row
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Oct 06, 2010 at 16:00 UTC |
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