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hello everyone. i am new to perl programming.
so i wanted to ask you that after splitting up a string into an array of characters how do i check induvidually each character if it matches a set of characters...........

for eg
original string ------>FLLICEK
i want to check each character if it is either T,D,L or F and if it is increment counter by 1

F------> it is one of the characters T,D,L,F so increment counter to 1
L-------> it is one of the characters T,D,L,F so increment counter to 1
L-------->(2nd L) it is one of the characters T,D,L,F so increment counter to 1
but i am not getting the method to do it .
plz help me......

 

i tried to do it using the || operator

Code:

if($x=='T'||$x=='D'||$x=='L'||$x=='F'){
  $count+=1;
}

but it increments the counter for every character.

 

maybe a debugoutput in the if that display $x's value helps you more...
the if statements looks good...

 

I some times use phpmaker, and dreamweaver to make certain changes.