Re: Count number of occurrences of a substr

Here are two ways of counting matches:

$n++ while $str=~/this/g;

$str =~ /this(?{$n++})(*F)/;
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Re^2: Count number of occurrences of a substr by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 28, 2011 at 18:53 UTC
Note, `$n` needs to be a `local our $n;` instead of `my $n;` for the second snippet to work properly in a sub.	[reply] [d/l] [select]