[TAG] Re: PROBLEM

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:19:43PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
>
> If I really
> wanted to count braces, I would write a Python program.
> 
> ``
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> """count-braces.py
> 
> Usage: count-braces.py <filename
> Print the number of {}() characters in the input file.
> """
> import re, sys
> 
> braceRx = re.compile( R"[{}()]" )
> text = sys.stdin.read()
> hits = braceRx.findall(text)
> print len(hits)
> ''

Jeez. Pythoneers. Always making things more complicated. :)

perl -0wne'print y/{()}//' file.c


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