Re: st: Parse question.

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

One approach is to use the macro extended function -subinstr-

For example:

 . local junk : subinstr local loc ";" "" , all count(local num)

this will create the local junk, with all occurances of ";" replaced 
with "".  You don't care about this, but it will also create the 
local called num which will contain the number of replacements.

-Nick Winter

At 10:30 AM 9/22/2005, you wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there any way to count the number of occurence of a particular 
> character in a
> local or
> global macro?
> For example:
> local loc (a mama baba).
> I would like to count the number of occurences of "a" , in this case 5.
> Or local loc "There; That; This)
> I want to count the number of occurences of ";".
> I am writing an ado for a work and I can't figure how to do it.
> I have a look at macrolists but there is no mention of that case.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Best regards.
> Amadou DIALLO.
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