in reply to Capturing occurrence counts via tr/// with variable interpolation

Use $ans = @{[ $str =~ m/$SrchStr/g ]}; and forget about using eval.

Your $SrchStr, say, if want to find occurances of 'a' and 'z', should be "[az]".

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Re^2: Capturing occurrence counts via tr/// with variable interpolation
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Aug 15, 2005 at 14:03 UTC
    The other idiom for getting the count from m// is 
    $ans = () = $str =~ m/$SrchStr/g;

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