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How can I count the occurrence of characters in a string?

Jul 13th, 2000 23:45
Rory Knowles, unknown unknown, Michael S. Comperchio

Here are 3 different character counts..
<%
'#1 - count total number of characters including spaces:
'-------------------------------------------------------
 strRequest = "This is One string Number is Total of 40"
 response.write Len(strRequest)
'-------------------------------------------------------
'#2 - count number of characters without spaces:
'-------------------------------------------------------
 strRequest = "This is One string Number is Total of 32"
 response.write Len(replace(strRequest, " ", ""))
'-------------------------------------------------------
'#3 - count number of a particular character
'-------------------------------------------------------
'A Function with no loops - include in your page
'-------------------------------------------------------
 function charcount(strRequest, char)
   tmp = Split(Trim(strRequest), char)
   charcount = UBOUND(tmp)
 end function
'------------------------------------------------------
'Insert This where you want to count the character
'------------------------------------------------------
 strRequest = "The Cat Jumped Over the Wall. The End."
 response.write charcount(strRequest, ".")
'------------------------------------------------------
%>
Hope this helps :-)
Rory