Counting Chars by ASCI Values

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Tue Feb 28 23:29:12 EST 2006


On 2/28/06 3:57 PM, "Jonathan Lynch" <jonathandlynch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the idea of using itemdel as a means of counting - very clever...
> 
> I was thinking there must be some other immediate means of counting?

How about this one?

function CountChars pString,pChar
  replace space with null in pString
  replace pChar with space in pString
  return ((the number of words of pString)-1)
end CountChars


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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