There's always the brute force method: <cfset count=0> <cfloop from="1" to="#Len(myString)#" index="i"> <cfif Mid(myString,i,1) EQ "##"> <cfset count=count+1> </cfif> </cfloop>
Not very elegant and for very large strings will not perform well. > My new question is this. Occasionally the "Products" value > will have a # > that I need to keep, so I'll need to split on the last # in > the string. > Looking through the CF String Manipulation functions, I don't see > anything that will return a count of a particular character. I haven't > found any on cflib.org as well. > > How could I find how many of a certain characters are in a string? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
