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 > [email protected] > > 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. > > -- > > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/379b202c-463e-4d7c-8a26-af63ab83d0aan%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/379b202c-463e-4d7c-8a26-af63ab83d0aan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/6234577f-c436-4ea3-ba7c-85c3f0a96847n%40googlegroups.com.
