RE: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string

Subject: RE: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string
From: "Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:11:06 -0400

> From: Christian Roth [mailto:roth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 April, 2008 18:02
> To: XSL List
> Subject: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string
>
> Hello,
>
> in XSLT 2, is there an easier or more efficient way to count
> the occurrences of a certain character (here: 'X') in a string $s than
>
> string-length( string-join( tokenize( $s, "[^X]+" ), "" ) )
>

How about string-length( replace( $s, '[^X]', '' ) ) which doesn't
go through all that splitting and joining.  Still I think someone
can improve on my solution too.

Andy.

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[xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string Christian Roth - 1 Apr 2008 22:02:07 -0000 Manfred Staudinger - 1 Apr 2008 22:10:55 -0000 Houghton,Andrew - 1 Apr 2008 22:11:25 -0000 <= Geert Bormans - 1 Apr 2008 22:12:05 -0000 David Carlisle - 1 Apr 2008 22:18:20 -0000 Christian Roth - 1 Apr 2008 22:56:41 -0000 Michael Kay - 1 Apr 2008 22:46:26 -0000

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