Check how many "," in each line in Perl [duplicate] - perl

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I have to check how many times was "," in each line in file. Anybody have idea how can I do it in Perl?
On this moment my code looks like it:
open($list, "<", $student_list)
while ($linelist = <$list>)
{
printf("$linelist");
}
close($list)
But I have no idea how to check how many times is "," in each $linelist :/

Answer 1

Use the transliteration operator in counting mode:
my $commas = $linelist =~ y/,//;

Answer 2

Edited in your code :
use warnings;
use strict;
open my $list, "<", "file.csv" or die $!;
while (my $linelist = <$list>)
{
my $commas = $linelist =~ y/,//;
print "$commas\n";
}
close($list);

Answer 3

If you just want to count the number of somethings in a file, you don't need to read it into memory. Since you aren't changing the file, mmap would be just fine:
use File::Map qw(map_file);
map_file my $map, $filename, '<';
my $count = $map =~ tr/,//;

Answer 4

#! perl
# perl script.pl [file path]
use strict;
use warnings;
my $file = shift or die "No file name provided";
open(my $IN, "<", $file) or die "Couldn't open file $file: $!";
my #matches = ();
my $index = 0;
# while <$IN> will get the file one line at a time rather than loading it all into memory
while(<$IN>){
my $line = $_;
my $current_count = 0;
# match globally, meaning keep track of where the last match was
$current_count++ while($line =~ m/,/g);
$matches[$index] = $current_count;
$index++;
}
$index = 0;
for(#matches){
$index++;
print "line $index had $_ matches\n"
}

Answer 5

You can use mmap Perl IO layer instead of File::Map. It is almost as efficient as former but most probably present in your Perl installation without needing installing a module. Next, using y/// is more efficient than m//g in array context.
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use constant STUDENT_LIST => 'text.txt';
open my $list, '<:mmap', STUDENT_LIST;
while ( my $line = <$list> ) {
my $count = $line =~ y/,//;
print "There is $count commas at $.. line.\n";
}
If you would like grammatically correct output you can use Lingua::EN::Inflect in the right place
use Lingua::EN::Inflect qw(inflect);
print inflect "There PL_V(is,$count) $count PL_N(comma,$count) at ORD($.) line.\n";
Example output:
There are 7 commas at 1st line.
There are 0 commas at 2nd line.
There is 1 comma at 3rd line.
There are 2 commas at 4th line.
There are 7 commas at 5th line.

Answer 6

Do you want #commas for each line in the file, or #commas in the entire file?
On a per-line basis, replace your while loop with:
my #data = <list>;
foreach my $line {
my #chars = split //, $line;
my $count = 0;
foreach my $c (#chars) { $count++ if $c eq "," }
print "There were $c commas\n";
}