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1031 - How can I count all occurrences of a letter in an external file?

by - Joseph Ganci

I want to count all the occurrences of a particular letter in an external file. How do I do this?

Here you go. This will look for the letter "r" in the file (lower or uppercase)

text := ReadExtFile("c:\\myfile.txt")
count := CharCount(text) - CharCount(Strip("r", LowerCase(text)))

If you really want to do it in one line, Mr. Tom Adams, you'll have to repeat the read function twice, which is overkill:

count := CharCount(ReadExtFile("c:\\myfile.txt")) - CharCount(Strip("r",LowerCase(ReadExtFile("c:\\myfile.txt"))))

That will do it!

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