[dba-VB] Count of specific character

Morning John!

I do not know of any specific special function to do this, but there's a
trick I use in Excel using the SUBSTITUTE function. I use LEN to get the
number of characters in the original string. Use SUBSTITUTE to replace the
character I need to count with "" (nothing). LEN the results and subtract
this from the original LEN.

Hope this helps!

Regards
Chris Foote


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> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:33 PM
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> Subject: [dba-VB] Count of specific character
> 
> 
> Is there any single function that will return a count of a specific
> character in a string?
> 
> I have a situation where (apparently) the header of a CSV 
> file has the same
> field name twice.  I am trying to determine what is going on, 
> so I want to
> count the field separator characters in the header and the 
> first line of
> real data to see if there are more fields in the header than 
> in the data or
> if something else is going on.
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com 
> 
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