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Re: How to get count of a specific character
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Thorsten Jolitz |
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Re: How to get count of a specific character |
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Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:48:45 +0100 |
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Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a buffer which is a massive long line of names followed by
> semi-colon. I want to get a list of the number of names I have. I
> can highlight the region and use wc to get count of words and divide
> by 2 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?
Maybe
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| C-x h M-x count-matches RET ;
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i.e. using `mark-whole-buffer' and 'count-matches'.
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cheers,
Thorsten