Re: Counting the frequency of words in a string

how about:

use Regexp::List, put the generated regex into $word_regex

my $count = ($count = $text) =~ s/$word_regex//g;

horrible?

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Re^2: Counting the frequency of words in a string by cez (Novice) on Dec 02, 2004 at 22:19 UTC
oh, i guess that could be just my $count = $text =~ s/$word_regex//g; (since destroying $text doesn't matter in my case)	[reply]
Re^3: Counting the frequency of words in a string by Eimi Metamorphoumai (Deacon) on Dec 02, 2004 at 22:26 UTC
Or `my $count = () = $text =~ /$word_regex/g;` [download] The parens make it list context, then you take the scalar context from that.	[reply] [d/l]