st: question regarding tokenize

["JP Azevedo" <jp.statalist@gmail.com>]

Dear all,
I would like to know if there is any way to find out in how many tokens a
particular string was devided using the tokenize command. And if it is
possible to ommit the parse character.

local str "A strange++strin^+Mexico+Chile"
tokenize `str', parse("+")
di "1=|`1'|, 2=|`2'|, 3=|`3'|, 4=|`4'|, 5=|`5'|"

Thanks,
JP

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