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>Have you ever wanted to count the number of matches of a patten? s///g
>returns the number of matches it finds. m//g just returns 1 for matching.
>Counts can be made using s//$&/g but this is wastefull, or by putting some
>counting loop round a m//g. But this all seams rather messy.
It's really much easier than all that:
$count = () = $string =~ /pattern/g;
--tom
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