Hello monks.. I had a question about counting the number of occurences of '|' in an input row. I am having to hardcode this symbol in the code in order for it to work properly. When I tried to pass this symbol in a variable, it didnt work. Can you please help me out with this? The code is below. The statement in comment is what I used previously. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Fcntl; #The Module
use strict;

#my $inp_row="per|l|mo|nks|ro|ck|s";

my $de='|';

print "delim is $de";

#my $count = ($inp_row =~ tr/|//);
my $count = ($inp_row =~ tr/$de//);

print "count is $count\n";

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This is probably elementary stuff for u guys out there... sorry !! Thanks!!!!

In reply to Regex - counting number of '|' by perl_junkie

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