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On Tue, Oct 13 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Also, did you actually try 'mapc', per my second suggestion?

Why not mapcar?

(defun test (str char)
  (apply '+ (mapcar (lambda (x) (if (= x char) 1 0))
                    str)))

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