PERL Beginners - Count Punctuation Chars

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Count Punctuation Chars

lucas

2006-05-22, 7:41 pm

Hi,

I am trying to count the number of times a punctuation character occurs in a text file (I am trying to find out the number of commas, full stops and open and closed brackets and hyphens there are).

I have tried:

$count = $string =~ tr/[,]//;
print "number of commas: $count\n";

For each punctuation char but it doesn't seem to work for the hyphen char and only seems to count 1 occurrence.

How can I achieve this? I'm lost

Thanks

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