Hello, I am merely trying to get the number of times a character labeled as $search appears in a series of different hash values.
Instead, I get the number of values which contain at least one $search.
I.E, PERL stops searching once it has found at least one instance of the $search inside the hash value. How can I cound the total amount of $search strings found in every hash key? 
    while (my ($key,$value) = each(%no)) {
      if ($value =~/$search/gi) {
      $contains++;
    }
  }

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Each hash value is a long sequence of about 300 characters. If I search for a common letter, I will get $contains to equal to number of hash sequences instead of the true number of characters in the collection of values. Thanks!

In reply to Simple (probably) by MaroonBalloon

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