roRegex count characters in given string
Hi guys, I am struggling with regular expression to count how many characters does a string contains. I am using Match command which should output an array of characters. These are my command...
Forum Discussion
"TheEndless" wrote:
You could potentially use roRegex.Split to split the string into an array and count the entries, but that may drop empty strings.
roRegEx.split() does not drop empty strings. So it will work but is brutal. Here is a slightly better way:
BrightScript Debugger> s = "ha |fg d a a aa a a |"roRegEx.replaceAll() can do the same for a pattern - or if multiple stats are to be accounted, just roll over the string and collect in a dictionary.
BrightScript Debugger> ? len(s) - len(s.replace("a", ""))
7
