From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get count of a specific character
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:49:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhxrnda8.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bc4b3de7-4e3c-4769-8343-831ed69dabdf@googlegroups.com
Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a buffer which is a massive long line of names followed by
> semi-colon. I want to get a list of the number of names I have. I
> can highlight the region and use wc to get count of words and divide
> by 2 to get a rough measure.
>
> But it would be an easy task if I could simply get a count of the
> number of semi-colon characters?
>
> Does anyone know a way to get this?
If you do
M-x re-builder
when you are in the buffer and then enter ";" as the regex, the number
of matches will be displayed.
Cheers,
Loris
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-04 14:29 How to get count of a specific character Angus Comber
2014-02-04 14:44 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-02-04 14:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-02-04 14:49 ` Loris Bennett [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.13678.1391525077.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-02-04 15:28 ` Angus Comber
2014-02-04 15:34 ` Nicolas Richard
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