Counting Chars by ASCI Values

[Jim Lambert]

If you go the route of counting through each character vs. the clever
itemcount technique, and if there are a number of lines in the string you
want to parse, then you might save some time by filtering the lines for your
target character.

If you're looking to count a's then

filter myString with "*a*"

In this way, you'd almost instantly eliminate all lines that don't contain
"a".
This leaves you with a shorter string to iterate through.

Personally I prefer the itemcount technique.

Jim Lambert