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Re: st: Parse question.


From   Nick Winter <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Parse question.
Date   Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:04:20 -0400

One approach is to use the macro extended function -subinstr-

For example:

. local junk : subinstr local loc ";" "" , all count(local num)

this will create the local junk, with all occurances of ";" replaced with "". You don't care about this, but it will also create the local called num which will contain the number of replacements.

-Nick Winter

At 10:30 AM 9/22/2005, you wrote:

Hi,
Is there any way to count the number of occurence of a particular character in a
local or
global macro?
For example:
local loc (a mama baba).
I would like to count the number of occurences of "a" , in this case 5.
Or local loc "There; That; This)
I want to count the number of occurences of ";".
I am writing an ado for a work and I can't figure how to do it.
I have a look at macrolists but there is no mention of that case.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Best regards.
Amadou DIALLO.
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