On Dec 5, Rahul Garg said:
>how to check $line contains how many tabs ..is there any func in perl
You might want to use the tr/// operator.
$tab_count = ($string =~ tr/\t//);
if ($tab_count == 1) {
# ...
}
Or, more briefly:
if (($string =~ tr/\t//) == 1) {
# ...
}
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