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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Number of specific char in a string. Post 45244 by gio123bg on Wednesday 17th of December 2003 05:37:57 AM
Old 12-17-2003
Data Number of specific char in a string.

I wish to compute the number of dot chars in a string.
Example:
VAR="aaaa.bbbbb.cccc"

I try the shortest command to solve this test.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,

Giovanni
 

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CCCC(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   CCCC(1)

NAME
cccc - C and C++ Code Counter, a software metrics tool SYNOPSIS
cccc [options] file1.c ... DESCRIPTION
CCCC analyses and reports measurements of source code in C, C++, and Java. It was developed to augment programmers' instinctive applica- tion of numeric rules of thumb about what constitutes high or low quality products with an automated analysis tool. CCCC processes the files listed on its command line. If the filenames include '-', read a list of files from standard input. This program is work in progress and is not well documented. Please be prepared to refer to the source code for the meaning of some options. OPTIONS
--help Generate this help message. --outdir=dname Directory for generated files (default=.cccc). --html_outfile=fname Name of primary HTML report generated (default=outdir/cccc.html). --db_infile=fname Preload internal database from named file (default=no initial content). --db_outfile=fname Save internal database to named file (default=outdir/cccc.db). --opt_infile=fname Load options from named file (default=use compiled-in option values, refer to cccc_opt.cc for option information). --opt_outfile=fname Save options to named file (default=outdir/cccc.opt). --lang=string Use language specified for files specified after this option. Languages supported are c, c++, ada, and java (default=use lan- guage/extension mapping controlled by options). --report_mask=hex Control report content (refer to ccccmain.cc for mask values). --debug_mask=hex Control debug output content (refer to ccccmain.cc for mask values). AUTHOR
CCCC was written by Tim Littlefair <tim_littlefair@hotmail.com>. This manual page was written by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). CCCC(1)
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