Re: Counting number of characters in a string

Yet Another Silly Way Of Counting Characters In A String (YASWOCCIAS):

$_="YASWOCCIAS";
s/./+1/g;
print eval;
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/brother t0mas

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Re: Re: Counting number of characters in a string by I0 (Priest) on Mar 13, 2001 at 13:19 UTC
Shouldn't that be s/./+1/gs;	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Counting number of characters in a string by t0mas (Priest) on Mar 13, 2001 at 14:22 UTC
$_="YASWOCCIAS"; don't contain any newlines so it doesn't matter in this case. In other cases it might, depending on how you define "character" in your application. For some apps (like word processors), s/\S/+1/g; might be the right choise if you like to use this algorithm in your production environment... :-) /brother t0mas	[reply]