Re: find out how many times particular character occur in given string.

On Dec 11, 4:51 am, 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:
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> >>> Dear Gurus,
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> >>>   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
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> >> You can also do that in Perl:
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> >> perl -e '$a="A*B*C*D*E*F"; print scalar(split(/\*/,$a))-1,"\n";'
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> > Or even:
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> > perl -le'print shift=~tr/*//' 'A*B*C*D*E*F'
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> > Regards
> > Dimitre
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> If someone suggests it in awk,
> I'm gonna have a fit...

Why? Pattern matching is awks reason to live. Maybe Rampant should publish a book <G,D&R>

jg

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