There's a fun little idiom using tr/// to count the number of
occurances of a character in a string:
perl -le '$str = "a,b,c,d,e"; $count = ($str =~ tr/,/,/); print "$count"'
will output "4", the number of commas in "a,b,c,d,e".
--Kester
> Jeff Williams wrote, on Tue 12/14/2004 11:23
> : I wrote a RegEx to let me know if a line of text has exactly 36 commas in
> it (the comma is the separator) and I came up with this. I don't think it
> is quite right. I could use a little pointing in the right direction. Any
> thoughts?
>
>
> : $lines[0] =~/^(.*?,){36}.*?$/
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