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sowmyasridhar15
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Hi
I just want to know if there is any method to find a character in a string.
Example: MUSCATINE##IOWA##USA
I need to know how many times '##' occurs in the string...Please help... |
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daye.Zheng
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Using inspect!
For example:
INSPECT stringdata TALLYING counter FOR ALL "#'
you can got it. |
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shrivatsa
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Its
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| INSPECT String-data TALLYING counter FOR ALL '##'. |
as he asked for '##' |
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sowmyasridhar15
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Hi...
Thank You...STRING worked... |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Please post the STRING code that works. |
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sowmyasridhar15
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The code that worked was
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| INSPECT String-data TALLYING counter FOR ALL ' '. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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| how nice. magic code! |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| Thank You...STRING worked... |
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The code that worked was
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| INSPECT String-data TALLYING counter FOR ALL ' '. |
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Not to make too fine a point, but the code that worked is an INSPECT rather than some string/unstring operation. Also, the code posted will find spaces rather than #(s) which i believe was the original requirement.
FWIW. |
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