Re: [tlug] GREP basics

[Tapio Peltonen <tappel@example.com>]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:

>> What if there's more than one occurance of <hdwh> on the same line?
>
>perl -ne '$m += split /<hdwd>/; --$m; END {print "$m\n"}' *

Hm, my perl is a bit rusty, does this count the occurrances if they
start within the previous occurrance? So that if you want to count the
occurrances of the string "aba" in the string "ababa" so it would answer
two?

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