Count Strings within in a String Variable

[acantor]

One of my scripts copies information to the clipboard, then copies the clipboard to a text variable for further processing. After several manipulations, I need to know the number of commas in the text variable.

 

Is there a straightforward way to do this in MEP?

 

I found a solution, but there must be a simpler way! See below. My approach involves 45 or 50 lines of code that incrementally replace every character, except commas, with nothing. I am left with a text variable that consists only of commas, so I get the answer by asking for the length of the string variable:

 

Variable Modify String: Replace "a" in %Text% with ""

Variable Modify String: Replace "b" in %Text% with ""

Variable Modify String: Replace "c" in %Text% with ""

etc.

 

Variable Modify String: Replace "1" in %Text% with ""

Variable Modify String: Replace "2" in %Text% with ""

Variable Modify String: Replace "3" in %Text% with ""
etc.

 

Variable Modify String: Replace "-" in %Text% with ""

Variable Modify String: Replace "." in %Text% with ""

Variable Modify String: Replace "(" in %Text% with ""

etc.

 

Variable Set Integer %NumberOfCommas% to the length of variable %Text%

[Cory]

What I do is copy the sting to a temp var then replace all occurances in that var with nothing. Then subtract the length of it from there length of the original var.

[paul]

You're upside down! Instead of removing everything but commas and counting what's left, simply replace the commas with nothing and count the difference in length between the original and new strings!

[acantor]

Paul and Cory,

 

Very clever! Thank you!