Date:         Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:41:27 -0700
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From:         "Schwarz, Barry A" <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: counting a character in string
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string2 = compress(string1, ',');
number_of_commas = length(compress(string1)) -
                   length(compress(string2));

-----Original Message-----
From: Murugappan Ramanathan [mailto:murugappan.x.ramanathan@US.HSBC.COM]

Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:04 PM
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Subject: counting a character in string

hi have a very long character string, something like this 1010, 1011,
1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1020, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

based on the number on commas in the sting i have to dynamically create
an array. i want to know how can  I count the number of commas in this
character string.
 thanks for the help