> length(gregexpr(";", b)[[1]])
[1] 5
This works as long as the substrings you are searching for don't overlap.
Christian
On 10/10/2010 11:18 PM, Santosh Srinivas wrote:
New to R ... which is a function to most effectively search the number of
occurrences of a character in a string?
b<- c("jkhrikujhj345hi5hiklfjsdkljfksdio324j';;'lfd;g'lkfit34'5;435l;43'5k")
I want the number of semi-colons ";" in b?
Thanks.
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