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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Why is this so slow?
Message-ID: <10679@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 10 Dec 90 05:28:50 GMT
References: <1990Dec7.212127.8161@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1990Dec10.022814.5349@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1990Dec10.022814.5349@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> ben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ben Fried) writes:
: This made me wish that perl had some operator for determining the count
: of matches of a pattern; is that something that sounds generally useful?

Look up what the return value is for either tr/// or s///g.  Guess what?

Larry