RE: counting the number of tokens in a string?

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Subject: RE: counting the number of tokens in a string?
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:27:37 +0100

> another newbie question.

Indeed - it last came up about a week ago.

 Is there an easy way to count
> the number of commas in a string? Like this:
> 
> <ITEM cols="col1,col2,col3,col4"/>
> 

string-length(@cols) - string-length(translate(@cols, ',', ''))

The translate() removes the commas, the rest works out how much this
changes the total length.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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counting the number of tokens in a string? john liao - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Marrow - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:50:05 -0400 (EDT) Oleg Tkachenko - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Wendell Piez - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Michael Kay - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:21:39 -0400 (EDT) <= <Possible follow-ups> Ben Robb - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:03:23 -0400 (EDT)

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