#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; #829841 my @parent =; my $substring = 'xxx'; my @count; my $total; for my $parent (@parent) { @count = split /$substring/, $parent; $total = $#count; print "there are $total $substring in $parent\n"; if($parent =~ /$substring[\s\S]*$substring/) { print "Duplicates\n" } elsif( $parent !~ /$substring/) { print "None\n"; } else { print "Unique\n" } print "-"x25 ."\n"; @count=""; $total=0; } __DATA__ xxx xxx xxx xxx yyy xxx yyy xxx yyy zyx zyx xx x