I am very sorry to say that you should give the trick inspite of giving the answer only.It will help us more.

Probably it may be 5 times in 3 2 3333

The number 3 never appears between 3 to 3333. The digit 3 does appear many times ... probably 998 times (or something like that, as the person above has mentioned). So the answer is 0.

see if this perl snippet works for you..

print "how many times 3 occurs between 3 to 3333?n answer:n";

my @nums = (3..3333);
foreach  (@nums) {
 my @tmp_counter = ($_ =~ m/3/g);
 $final_count += eval($#tmp_counter+1);
}
print "final : $final_count n";

output :
how many times 3 occurs between 3 to 3333?
 answer:
final : 1336

sagar

main() {
int i=3,temp=0,d,c=0;
for(;i<=3333;++i)
{
 temp=i;
 while(temp!=0)
 {
  d=temp%10;
  if(d==3)
   c++;
  temp=temp/10;
 }

}
printf("%d",c); }



ans: 1336 times