counting a split

[columb]

I have a string which looks like

bit1,bit2,bit3,bit4

and I want to count the number of bits. What I have so far is

my @bits = split /,/;
print $#bits, "\n";

which works fine but do I really need to declare the array? I've tried constructs such as

print $#(split /,/)

and a number of variants but I can't seem to get it. Any pointers please?

Thanks

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[prex1]

[tt]print scalar split/,/;[/tt]
or (faster)
[tt]print 1+tr/,/,/;[/tt]

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[columb]

Thanks - perfect answer(s)

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