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counting number of times in strings

From: Maurice Samuels <samuels_at_red.seas.upenn.edu>
Date: 2000/07/11
Message-ID: <8kg075$ghf$1@netnews.upenn.edu>#1/1 






does anyone out there know of any oracle supplied functions (pl/sql) that
will count the number of times a character appears in a strings?
for example,


string='0011223344'



the function would return 2 if i asked how many times '0' appears in the string.
thanks in advance


-maurice


samuels_at_seas.upenn.edu
Received on Tue Jul 11 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT












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