find out number of characters

nicetohaveyou

is there any built in funcion which gives the number of times a character appears in astring in VB? like incase of find number of times the character 'a' appears in the string 'Abbacus'. is 2

Steve Mayfield

I haven't a clue...but if you post your question in the correct forum (which is here[^]) you might get an answer... Steve

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An interesting question from someone with such an interesting name. So, its nice to have me, eh? Nice to have a loud mouth that can harass you continuously until underworld come? Someone that can get under your skin, which is an amazing feat I guarantee you for a 6'2", 250+ lbs monster such as I. and wreak havoc from within. Would you care to have that? Begone foul thing lest thy presence render this forum stinky. PS. NEVER post programming questions in the forum

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Malcolm Smart

nicetohaveyou wrote:

like incase of find number of times the character 'a' appears in the string 'Abbacus'. is 2

Create a lookup with every single word known to man (or woman) and another lookup with a count of every character in that word. Then use a for next loop to go down the list (don't sort or order the list, too difficult), but go down teh list, compare your word to the one in the list and if it matches you're on to a winner. or a better method would be to restrict the words the user can enter to Abbacus, only let the search for A and always return 2, in which case, you're done! Congratulations.

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Christian Graus

Is this the first lounge programming question for the new site ?

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Pete OHanlon

nicetohaveyou wrote:

like incase of find number of times the character 'a' appears in the string 'Abbacus'

Nope. It's only once. There's this strange concept in computing that you probably haven't come across before called the ASCII set where the letter a isn't the same as the letter A. I guess this lack of understanding is why you completely ignored that honking bit of bold text at the top that tells you not to post a programming question in the loungslounge.

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modified on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:24:47 AM

Malcolm Smart · modified on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:24:47 AM

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

loungs.

Ascii 's' and ascii 'e' are interchangeable though? Nics ons Psts.

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Pete OHanlon

Malcolm Smart wrote:

Nics ons Psts

:laugh: Like it. Thanks for spotting the mistake.

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megaadam

Well Steve, in order to ask a programming question, you actually have to be a programmer. So in this case, I wouldn't worry. :suss:

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El Corazon

nicetohaveyou wrote:

is there any built in funcion which gives the number of times a character appears in astring in VB?

yes, and all the characters hang out in the VB forum.

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Thomas Krojer

yes, there is a method. if you ask me the same question in the vb forum, i will tell you ...