Re: find out how many times particular character occur in given string.
From: Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomitiko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:30:00 +0100
Message-ID: <ghr14i$go6$1@reader.motzarella.org>
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> You can also do that in Perl:
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> perl -e '$a="A*B*C*D*E*F"; print scalar(split(/\*/,$a))-1,"\n";'
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:30:00 +0100
Message-ID: <ghr14i$go6$1@reader.motzarella.org>
Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:19:20 -0800, Sanjeev wrote:
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>> Dear Gurus, >> >> I want to find out how many times particular character occur in >> given string. >> e.g. 'A*B*C*D*E*F' count of '*' is 5 >> 'A*B*C*D' count of '*' is 3 >> 'A' count of '*' is 0
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> You can also do that in Perl:
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> perl -e '$a="A*B*C*D*E*F"; print scalar(split(/\*/,$a))-1,"\n";'
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Or even:
perl -le'print shift=~tr/*//' 'A*B*C*D*E*F'
Regards
Dimitre
Received on Thu Dec 11 2008 - 06:30:00 CST