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Find The Count Of A Given Character In A Text String

03.23.2006
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        ASP / VBScript offers no built-in functionality for this.


CharacterCount = Len(MyString) - Len(Replace(MyString, TargetCharacter, ""))

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Snippets Manager replied on Tue, 2011/07/26 - 2:22pm

arrCount = Split(MyString, TargetCharacter, -1 1) CharacterCount = UBound(arrCount)
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