Editor's Note - Masem - 2001-07-19 - Please note text of original question was given below with an empty root node; this text has been copied into the root node for completeness' sake.

I understand that tr/abc// use "abc" for matching, instead it uses "a", "b", and "c" to match $_ separately.
Therefore this counting won't work correctly: 

$x = 0;
$cnt = tr/abc//;
$x += $cnt;

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I've tried: 
$x = 0;
while (<DATA>) {
$cnt = m/abc/g;
$x += $cnt;
}

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This won't work either... So, is there a way to find out how many times string "abc" appeared?

Could any Perl Master enlighten me a little bit?

In reply to Re: tr/abc// won't use string for matching, then what? by supernewbie
in thread tr/abc// won't use string by supernewbie

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