Hello Monks, i am new to perl programming. i am trying to write a program to find number of occurence of '\' in an array file path. I tried the follwing code, 
  
@list = "C:\username\Sources"; 
  
foreach $arrchar (@list) 
{ 
   print "array char = $arrchar"; 
   if($_ = /\\/) 
               { 
                    print "\nfound one \n"; 
               } 
}

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but it was not working, i mean it is not printng "found one". but errors = 0 please excuse my ignorance if my code is wrong. Reading the manual is confusing me further.. can anyone please help me with the code?

Thanks,

Kumeperl

In reply to search for '\' in perl by kumeperl

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