st: strings hnadling

["Alexander Nervedi" <alexnerdy@hotmail.com>]

Hi List users,

I have data which has been entered awkwardly.

Instead of taking each a seperate variable for each item - all items of a 
category are entered together in a variable.

ID      Grp1     Grp2       Grp3   Grp4
001   2;3;4    10;99;2    01     11,2,25,2,3


I'd like to convert this to a dataset that looks like

ID      Grp1     Grp2       Grp3   Grp4
001    3          3            1        5

i.e. the count of the number of semi-colons within each variable.  I am sure 
there is a neat way of doing this but I am missing it. So i thought i'd 
write in and ask for u r help.

thanks

Alnerdy

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