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comma in the print statement

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perl -e '$cnt=0; while (<>) { while (m/\bpattern\b/g) {$cnt++}} print $cnt, "\n"' file

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perldoc -q count

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perl -00 -ne '$count=  () = $_ =~ /\bpattern\b/g;print $count' file

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