in reply to count special character

On the command line, type 
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Re^2: count special character
by bharatbsharma (Acolyte) on Aug 18, 2010 at 10:48 UTC
    I think i have got the answer 
    $count = ($string =~ tr/\"//);
print "There are $count [\" ] characters in the string";

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