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perl0user
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Jan 15, 2009, 12:26 PM

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number of regex match	Can't Post

hi,
i'd like to know how to get the number of regexp matches a pattern returns
ex: if I have $_ = "fooFOObarBAR";$_ =~ /[a-z]/
it would return 6

thx

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shawnhcorey
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Jan 15, 2009, 2:27 PM

Post #2 of 2 (2042 views)

Re: [perl0user] number of regex match [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
$_ = "fooFOObarBAR"; 
my $count = 0; 
$count ++ while $_ =~ /[a-z]/g; 
print "$count\n";

__END__

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