Counting F's (Was: How do I...)

supernewbie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Formerly titled: How do I find out many letter "f" are used in two paragraphs with PERL programming.. Please save a newbie's life... please...

WITH PERL, how can I find out how many letter "f" are used in two paragraphs like these:

sdfsdf adsfasdf sdfads dfasdf dsfasd sdfsdf sfdsaf fdedx dffgs gfefsddf kfef ldkjikk. feal kddfdl dfdafdfasd, sdfioddff, ffokjmimiijij, fdfsdfsdfd, feefffdd fdflnnjdf, feffdsdfds, sdfd safad fdafdfsd asdfds.

adfasdfasdfsad; adfasdfdasf; aiodfd, aiihaf iddkkj jijlkjj fidlkj fdklkk fdllinn lkjljkljljkk fdiii sdadl lsjijdf idfasd, ajdfia, kijijl fllijj jliiljnf jjijjil.

Do I use m// or something else? HOW?
Thanks a million for saving a newbie from dying...

Edited by footpad, 18 Jul 01 - 12:45 pm (PDT)

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Re: Counting F's by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 18, 2001 at 21:17 UTC
Read perlop on tr: `my $count_effs = $paragraph =~ tr/f//;` [download] Edited by footpad, 18 Jul 01 - 12:49 PM (PDT)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Counting F's (Was: How do I...) by petdance (Parson) on Jul 19, 2001 at 05:18 UTC
Maybe he's trying to solve that old chestnut of counting the Fs in the following block of text: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. xoxo, Andy -- <megaphone> Throw down the gun and tiara and come out of the float! </megaphone>	[reply]
Re: Counting F's by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 18, 2001 at 23:36 UTC
The fact that it's the letter "f" and not something more interesting like \n makes me think this is homework. Can we get a better explanation of the problem here? -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Edited by footpad, 18 Jul 01 - 12:51 pm (PDT)	[reply]