One way to count the occurrence of each character in a string:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict; #never, never leave home without it
my %chars = ();
my $string = "J. J. is cool!";
foreach my $character (split //, $string) {
$chars{$character}++;
}
print "Report:\n";
foreach my $key (keys %chars) {
print "\t$key = $chars{$key}\n";
}
Yields:
[13:22:15 jhorner@gateway scripts]$ ./20000714-1.pl
Report:
= 3
! = 1
o = 2
i = 1
J = 2
c = 1
s = 1
l = 1
. = 2
J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/
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