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Count Number of Instances of a Character in a String
Keywords: strcount
Question:
Does Winbatch have a string function, like StrCount, that counts the number of occurrences of a character in a string?Answer:
;Find number of "a"'s in the string
string="abcannannndnnnannnwennnannannaaannndndnnd"
count=Strlen(string) - StrLen(StrReplace(string,"a",""))
Message("Count",count)
Article ID: W14502
Filename: Number of Instances of Char in a String.txt
File Created: 2000:03:30:11:43:44
Last Updated: 2000:03:30:11:43:44