Re^2: need help in extending the code

Hi marshall,

Thanks for the help. And in the same script which you have provided me few days ago and i also modified and posted yesterday. In that i want the comparison to be case-sensitive which means all words should be compared without case-sensitivesness..

for eg. If i have the word "finding" in the candidate and "Finding" in reference. The present script dont give the count in reference for that word, since it has capital F.

So, how can deal with this case-sensitive problem. Any help plz

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Re^3: need help in extending the code by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2011 at 05:36 UTC
In that i want the comparison to be case-sensitive which means all words should be compared without case-sensitivesness.. Say that out loud and see if it makes sense to you -- in the same sentence you use "case-sensitive" to mean both case-sensitive and case-insensitive So what is your goal?	[reply]
Re^3: need help in extending the code by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 28, 2011 at 04:57 UTC
I'm not sure what you need. To count the number of occurrences of "finding" in a case insensitive way would require the /i switch for case_insensitive and then the /g switch to keep going globally. There is a critter, called the goatse operator, "=()=" that will give the scalar count of the number of matches. You can read about it here: goatse operator. Or just look at the code and play with it.. `!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $x = "Finding fiNding fIndinG finding"; my $count = () = $x =~ /finding/ig; print "$count\n"; #prints 4` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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