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Martin made the good point
Tunga wants only ":2" at the end of his strings, so Kit`s solution
could be
problematic, as it seems to search anywhere within the string...
the 'count' could be amended to
count if strpos(var1,":2") == 8
Naturally, substr() is another way to skin this particular cat.
I'm not sure why Martin is reading 9-character strings with str10 and
then using compress in his solution.
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