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RE: counting the number of tokens in a string?
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:27:37 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] counting the number of tokens in a string?
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> another newbie question.
Indeed - it last came up about a week ago.
Is there an easy way to count
> the number of commas in a string? Like this:
>
> <ITEM cols="col1,col2,col3,col4"/>
>
string-length(@cols) - string-length(translate(@cols, ',', ''))
The translate() removes the commas, the rest works out how much this
changes the total length.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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