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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to replace the string with "*" in Perl? Post 302538195 by vanitham on Tuesday 12th of July 2011 04:43:57 AM
Old 07-12-2011
Wrench
Quote:
Originally Posted by maskofzorro
Got this so far, not completely what u want i think

PHP Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;

my $str = "hello worlds";
my @newstr=split(/ /,$str);

        foreach $line (@newstr) {
                $mystring = $line;
                @mylenght = length($mystring);

                        foreach (@mylenght) {
                                print "*\n" x$_."\n";
                }
                } 
Hi,

The output should not be like this:
Code:
*
*
*
*
*

*
*
*
*
*
*

Say for example: Hi I am vanitha (Hi 2 starts, I one stars, am 2 stars and vanitha 7 stars)
Output:
Code:
* * *    *
*   *    *
         *
         *
         *
         *
         *

In this fashion only output should appear
 

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