Hi all!

My question is rather silly, but I can't seem to be able to find the solution myself...

I have the array:

@letters = (A,B,C,D,E,F);

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and the string:

$string = "AFTYUBEWTWECRTUTYIYTDDDDRYJURTHJTREEEEEFGSDFF";

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and I want to find how many times each letter appears in the $string.

I go like:

foreach $a(@letters)
{
$count = ($string = ~tr/$a//);
print $count;
}

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But it doesn't count anything...

Does it have to do with the $a in the pattern matching?

I tested the same thing and instead of $a I put A or B etc and it works...

Code tags added by GrandFather

2006-01-31 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'This should be easy...'

In reply to This should be easy: counting letters in a string by Anonymous Monk

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