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Old 07-16-2008   #1 (permalink)
Kiron


 
 

Re: how to count number of certain char within string

$test="one,two,thr,four,five"

$char = ','
$result = 0..($test.length - 1) | ? {$test[$_] -eq $char}

# how many?
$result.count

# indices
$result

# verify
$result | % {$test[$_]}

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