Re: find out how many times particular character occur in given string.
From: Palooka <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:56:13 +0000
Message-ID: <xKa0l.49314$lR4.17895@newsfe03.ams2>
>> Radoulov, Dimitre wrote,on my timestamp of 11/12/2008 11:30 PM:
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>>> Mladen Gogala wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:19:20 -0800, Sanjeev wrote:
>>>>> Dear Gurus,
>>>>> I want to find out how many times particular character occur in
>>>>> given string.
>>>>> e.g. 'A*B*C*D*E*F' count of '*' is 5
>>>>> 'A*B*C*D' count of '*' is 3
>>>>> 'A' count of '*' is 0
>>> [...]
>>>> You can also do that in Perl:
>>>> perl -e '$a="A*B*C*D*E*F"; print scalar(split(/\*/,$a))-1,"\n";'
>>> [...]
>>> Or even:
>>> perl -le'print shift=~tr/*//' 'A*B*C*D*E*F'
>>> Regards
>>> Dimitre
>> If someone suggests it in awk,
>> I'm gonna have a fit...- Hide quoted text -
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>> - Show quoted text -
Aaaaaaaargh Received on Thu Dec 11 2008 - 09:56:13 CST
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:56:13 +0000
Message-ID: <xKa0l.49314$lR4.17895@newsfe03.ams2>
gazzag wrote:
> On 11 Dec, 12:51, Noons <wizofo..._at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> Radoulov, Dimitre wrote,on my timestamp of 11/12/2008 11:30 PM:
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>>> Mladen Gogala wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:19:20 -0800, Sanjeev wrote:
>>>>> Dear Gurus,
>>>>> I want to find out how many times particular character occur in
>>>>> given string.
>>>>> e.g. 'A*B*C*D*E*F' count of '*' is 5
>>>>> 'A*B*C*D' count of '*' is 3
>>>>> 'A' count of '*' is 0
>>> [...]
>>>> You can also do that in Perl:
>>>> perl -e '$a="A*B*C*D*E*F"; print scalar(split(/\*/,$a))-1,"\n";'
>>> [...]
>>> Or even:
>>> perl -le'print shift=~tr/*//' 'A*B*C*D*E*F'
>>> Regards
>>> Dimitre
>> If someone suggests it in awk,
>> I'm gonna have a fit...- Hide quoted text -
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>> - Show quoted text -
> > VB script? :) >
Aaaaaaaargh Received on Thu Dec 11 2008 - 09:56:13 CST