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Subject: RE: [xsl] counting the number of tokens in a string?
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:27:37 +0100
> 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
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