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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Counting characters with unix utilities
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.171237.17490@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 17:12:37 GMT
References: <1990Sep25.151014.11935@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)

In article <1990Sep25.151014.11935@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>, worley@compass (Dale Worley) writes:
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|    X-Name: Randal Schwartz
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|    perl -ne '$c += tr/A/A/; print $c if eof;' file
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| Doesn't this fail if the file is empty?

Ooops.  I'll be out painting fence-posts for a while, sorry. :-)
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