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Re: Count of Repeated Charactersby karlgoethebier (Abbot) |
on Apr 27, 2015 at 12:14 UTC ( [id://1124858]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
"...I need a count of 'aa' in a string." If you only want to count the occurance of 'aa' (only two letters - you wrote 'aa') try this: print scalar grep {$_ eq 'aa'} split /[^a]/, 'dftaatzaaadfaa';This one counts Please see also scalar, grep, split and perlretut Update: Fixed typos Update 2: Yes, i know - some might say this is yet another "misuse". But it works:
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