Just ask for the scalar. Not that I'm saying this is the best way, but at least you're not keeping the array:
my $count = scalar split(/\s+/,$line); -t. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:24 AM To: 'Foo Ji-Haw'; 'Win32 perl' Subject: RE: How to best count the number of words in a sentence? Hi all, This is probably a fun trivial question: I'd like to count the number of words in a string. My command: my $count = split(/\s+/,$line); works. But Perl complains about: Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated It works, but it's deprecated. I can assign split to an array, then do a scalar() on it. But this cannot be the best method (too much work!). Your take guys? ------------------------------------ I'm sure there may be a better way. My computer counted the lines in a 40mb text file in about 2 sec. Not too shabby. my @count = split(/\s+/,$line); print scalar(@count); - Chris _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
