to find string

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Re: to find string by Ratazong (Monsignor) on Jun 21, 2011 at 05:56 UTC
What have you tried? Are you aware of index? That should find your substring. And by providing an offset in combination with a loop, counting the number of occurences should be not too difficult ...	[reply]
Re: to find string by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 21, 2011 at 06:28 UTC
How many "`abab`" are "`abababab`"? 2: `# abababab # ---- # ---- my $count = 0; ++$count while $string =~ /\Q$substr/g;` [download] 3: `# abababab # ---- # ---- # ---- local our $count = 0; $string =~ /\Q$substr\E(?{ ++$count })(?!)/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: to find string by toolic (Bishop) on Jun 21, 2011 at 13:04 UTC
Start by querying the Perl FAQ, which is conveniently available from your command line: `perldoc -q count` [download] and online: How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a string?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: to find string by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 21, 2011 at 05:57 UTC
Show us what you tried. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: to find string by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2011 at 06:01 UTC
Hi. No. LCS	[reply]