Date:         Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:25:50 -0000
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From:         Perry <jasper6294@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: little problem with row
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Check out the countc() function.

find = countc(tot, "|");


On Aug 21, 10:17 am, boulmo <pierre.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a little problem.
> i have a data set with 3 rows.
> Each row has a sentence ;
> and i need to count the number of occurence of a sign "|" into the
> sentence.
> I'm using a variable called "find" which is used with an index
> statement.
>
> i did something like that :
> find= index(tot, "|");
>
> Well, i need to get the number of occurence by row
> the variable which contains the number of occurence is "inc"
>
> i did :
> if find^=0 then inc+1;
> but it's not by row. How can i do ?
>
> thanks