COUNT

The COUNT function returns the number of times that one string occurs in another.

COMMAND SYNTAX

    COUNT(expression1, expression2)

SYNTAX ELEMENTS

Both expression1 and expression2 may evaluate to any data type but logically they will evaluate to character strings.

NOTES

Quote from older documentation: "The count is made on overlapping occurrences as a pattern match from each character in expression1. This means that the string jjj occurs 3 times in the string jjjjj".

This is no more the case (TAFC R19), see example 2 below.

See also: DCOUNT

EXAMPLES

    Calc = "56 * 23 / 45 * 12"
    CRT "There are " : COUNT(Calc, '*') : " multiplications"

    CRT COUNT('jjjjj', 'jjj')     ;* 1
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