Re: st: Parse question

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I was wondering this the other day but didn't
remember anything.

Given this,

*! NJC 1.0.0 22 Sept 2005
program charcount
	version 8
	args string char garbage
	if `"`char'"' == "" | `"`garbage'"' != "" error 198

	local c = 0
	forval i = 1/`= length(`"`string'"')' {
		if substr(`"`string'"',`i',1) == `"`char'"' local ++c
	}

	c_local count = `c'
end

you should fire at it a quoted string and a quoted character,
e.g.

charcount "`loc'" "a"

and it will insinuate a local macro -count- in your vicinity
with the answer.

di `count'

(It should probably be sclass, and I'll attend to that in due course.)

So watch out for your own use of -count-.

There's also no doubt a Mata solution.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

adiallo5@worldbank.org

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.


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