Re: find out how many times particular character occur in given string.
From: Michael Austin <maustin_at_firstdbasource.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:52:44 -0600
Message-ID: <HBi0l.9729$yr3.3531@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:52:44 -0600
Message-ID: <HBi0l.9729$yr3.3531@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>
Noons wrote:
> Radoulov, Dimitre wrote,on my timestamp of 11/12/2008 11:30 PM:
>> 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
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They did - when this question was asked in c.d.mysql ;) Received on Thu Dec 11 2008 - 18:52:44 CST