Hi,

Say that we have a word  A='ddsC;dd;ee;Xv;oui'

I'd like to know if there is a method of how to count the number of 
occurences of the comma  (;)  in the word A.

In this example : the number is 4.

Thanks.

On 2004-06-25, M.H wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Say that we have a word  A='ddsC;dd;ee;Xv;oui'
>
> I'd like to know if there is a method of how to count the number of 
> occurences of the comma  (;)  in the word A.

    That's a semi-colon, not a comma.

> In this example : the number is 4.

    In any Bourne-type shell:

A='ddsC;dd;ee;Xv;oui'
IFS=';'
set -- x${A}x
shift
echo $#


    With awk:

echo "x${A}x" | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ";"} {print NF - 1}'


   With bash2 or ksh93:

A=${A//[!;]}
echo ${#A}


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{
temp = A
count = gsub(/;/, "", temp)
print count
}

DKM

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:47:43 +0200, "M.H" <haed98@excite.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Say that we have a word  A='ddsC;dd;ee;Xv;oui'
>
>I'd like to know if there is a method of how to count the number of 
>occurences of the comma  (;)  in the word A.
>
>In this example : the number is 4.
>
>Thanks.


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   M.H <haed98@excite.com>:
> Say that we have a word  A='ddsC;dd;ee;Xv;oui'
> 
> I'd like to know if there is a method of how to count the number of 
> occurences of the comma  (;)  in the word A.

stefan2@platon:~/test> echo "ddsC;dd;ee;Xv;oui" |
                        awk -F';' '{print NF-1}'
4

Stefan

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On 25 Jun 2004 17:08:17 GMT, Chris F.A. Johnson 
  <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     With awk:
>
> echo "x${A}x" | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ";"} {print NF - 1}'
>
Another way to do it in awk:
echo "$A" |awk '{print gsub(/;/,"",$0)}'


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