in reply to Re: search for '\' in perl
in thread search for '\' in perl

Hello monks, Thanks for your fast response. after taking your suggestions i did the following changes in code 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
use warnings;

my $count;
my @list = 'C:\username\Sources';

chomp @list;
#print OUTPTR "$_\n" foreach @list;
foreach my $arrchar (@list)
{
   print "array char = $arrchar";
   if($arrchar =~ m/\\/)
               {
                    print "\nfound one \n";
                    $count += 1;
               }
   else
   {
      print"\n i am in else \n"
   }
}
print "value of count = $count";

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the result is

array char = C:\username\Sources

found one

value of count = 1

i am expecting count = 2. again i am not sure why it is not working properly.

regards,

kumeperl

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Re^3: search for '\' in perl
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 13, 2011 at 13:30 UTC
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Re^3: search for '\' in perl
by TJPride (Pilgrim) on Dec 13, 2011 at 14:32 UTC
    I read that page a while ago, threw me off because the $count = (my pattern matching) format didn't seem to work. But apparently, $count = () = pattern match does, cool! I learn something new every day:

    use strict;
use warnings;

open (HANDLE, 'C:\username\Sources') || die;
$_ = join '', <HANDLE>;
my $c = () = m/\\/g;
print "Found $c matches!";

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