On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > only works for single characters. > > function substringCount pString, pChunk > replace pString with cr & pString & cr in pChunk > filter pChunk with pString > return the number of lines of pChunk > end substringCount
Here's one that works if you only have 1 character you're searching for: split tString by tChar put (the number of elements of tString) - 1 into tNumOccurrences Just offering another way to do it… :D Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode