Michael Robeson wrote:
I decided to use the if statement you posted:
<snip>
only because I had to add a $count++ function within the else
statement (shown below) to accomplish another task within my larger
script:
if ( $aa eq '-' ) {
$hash3{$_} .= '---';
} else {
$hash3{$_} .= substr $dna,0,3,'';
$count++
}
I couldn't figure out if it was possible to add $count++ within the
?: statement above. I tried but could not get it to work.
Right, the conditional operator is merely designed for assignment.
OTOH, you don't need a loop to count a certain type of characters in a
string:
my $string = 'mfg--f';
my $count = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
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