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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Counting characters with unix utilities
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Date: 25 Sep 90 15:10:14 GMT
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   X-Name: Randal Schwartz

   perl -ne '$c += tr/A/A/; print $c if eof;' file

Doesn't this fail if the file is empty?

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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