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Re: How to get count of a specific character
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Angus Comber |
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Re: How to get count of a specific character |
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Tue, 4 Feb 2014 07:28:51 -0800 (PST) |
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On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 14:44:21 UTC, Nicolas Richard wrote:
> Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
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> > I have a buffer which is a massive long line of names followed by
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> > semi-colon. I want to get a list of the number of names I have. I can
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> > highlight the region and use wc to get count of words and divide by 2
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> > to get a rough measure.
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> > But it would be an easy task if I could simply get a count of the number of
> > semi-colon characters?
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> > Does anyone know a way to get this?
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> highlight region and:
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> M-x count-matches RET ; RET
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Brilliant, thanks. Note you have to escape ;