Stephen A. Jarjoura wrote:
I needed to count the number of occurances of a substring within a string...
$buffer =~ s/(\transfer)/$transfer_count++;$1/sg;
Don't you need a /e modifier for that to work?
Did I miss some obvious, and easier method?
my @count = $string =~ m/$substr/g;
On 8/9/05, Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:07:16PM -0700, Stephen A. Jarjoura wrote:
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Did I miss some obvious, and easier method?
Basically, you need a loop. s///g allows you to hide the loop, but is less
efficient because you're updating the