Hi Craig,

Thanks for the solution. I plan to try it.

Howard

On Tuesday, 6 October 2020 at 3:06:28 pm UTC-4 Craig W Johnson wrote:

> There may be a better way, but what I would do is open up a search window, 
> enter your target name in the find field, enter “\1\r” in the replace 
> field, and then hit extract. Every instance hit will then be on its own 
> line, and, presuming you have line numbering enabled, you could just check 
> the end line for the count.
>
> You could also just have the replace field be “\r” — you’ll still get the 
> count — but that’s less reassuring.
>
> If you only want occurrences within the “From” field, include that text in 
> your find query.
>
> Craig Johnson
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> On 6 Oct 2020, at 11:23, Howard wrote:
>
> I have the following data (shown below). I want to count how many times 
> each of the four names appear (Harvey Haney, Apple Jones, Banana Herb, Sam 
> Blue). Can this be done in BBEdit? If not, I would appreciate suggestions 
> on how it can be done.
>
> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning. How is everyone today?
> 10:46:08 From Apple Jones : I'm doing good. How are you?
> 10:46:12 From Banana Herb : Good how are you!
> 10:46:18 From Sam Blue : I'm doing fine. How are you?
> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning. How is everyone today?
> 10:46:08 From Harvey Haney : I'm doing good. How are you?
> 10:46:12 From Apple Jones : Good how are you!
> 10:46:18 From Sam Blue : I'm doing fine. How are you?
> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning.
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