Count the \s between the comma

[rafael.assis16]

Hello, I have a string as shown below, I need to count the \s between the comma. I found an example that counts the total of \s of the string, as shown. Can you help me?

[RavensFan]

Split string at first comma.  Find 2nd comma and split it there.

Now do the search for spaces on the part in between.

[billko]

Are you sure that's really how the string comes out?  I suspect you're looking for literal strings of \s when you should be looking for a space.

[rafael.assis16]

If instead of counting between the commas I turn into an array and perform the count?

[billko]

I still am doubtful that those \s are literally what you are looking for.  Or is that string indicator in backslash display mode?  If it is, this is a great time to learn that if you have controls, indicators, and/or constants that aren't displaying in their default fashion, it's pretty mandatory that you show this on your object by showing the radix on a numeric or the display mode on a string to avoid this kind of confusion.

Edit: I am leaving this post up even after figuring out what display mode the control is in so you can learn a bit about coding for other devs.  (Just beause you know what display mode the control is in doesn't mean anyone else does.)

[rafael.assis16]

What I need is to count the number of characters, and I also need to know what character is and what is space (\s). I can get the string convert to array and do these counts in the array, no problem.

[billko]

Oh well, now I that I've decoded the picture  - I'm much better at decoding actual code - I see that the string control is actually in backslash mode, given the search string.  So Raven has beaten me by a day.  😉

But I'm wondering why you have to do this.  What is it going to help you to do?  Maybe there's a better way to do whatever it is you're trying to accomplish?

[billko]

BTW - Search and Replace with "all" returns the number of replacements made, so you can use that in a loop and just add up all the results.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Pretty flexible solution, if you know reg.ex.'s.

, must match exact character (comma)

([^,]*) Matches 0-n characters that are not a comma, and return in first capturing group

, must match exact character (comma)

[rafael.assis16]

Below is what I did. I changed the spaces by * and then converted to array. How could I now, from this array, count the characters of each value?