Re^4: counting inside the loop

Hi,

$s='finding related pages finding on the world wide web';
my $count=$s=~ m/finding/g;
print $count;
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I expect the result as 2.. becus "finding" exists two times in $s. but the output is 1. Why??

thanks

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Re^5: counting inside the loop by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2011 at 06:22 UTC
It is because you don't know how to copy/paste The extra `( ) =` are required --- probably the worst syntax in all of perl, but its what you need if you have built-in regexes without objects, and you don't store matches in an array.	[reply] [d/l]