Re: find out how many times particular character occur in given string.

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";'

If someone suggests it in awk,
I'm gonna have a fit... Received on Thu Dec 11 2008 - 06:51:12 CST