Hi Dave,

Thanks for giving insight of the solutions and giving me prototypes to copy and paste ;)

And the other problem is that $& only shows the actual most recent match, not some count of the number of possible times

Actually that is what I mentioned pl read comments in 

#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $x=1;
my @arr= qw(foo cho roh foo kho foo  moo foo);
my $str=join ' ',@arr;
$str=~ /foo/;
print $&; #### In place of $&; we can use that for no
          #### for no. of matches.

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Now, I posted this piece to get suggestion from people, what in regular expression can be used (in place of $&) But it can be done using spl variable of reg ex also, if I am right?? Any takers?

to count the no of matches in one go using special variable, if there is any!! and I think I encountered that somewhere!

In reply to Re^3: Word frequency in an array by cool
in thread Word frequency in an array by monkeybus

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