Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xsl-list Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string [Thread Next] RE: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a stringTo: Date: 4/1/2008 10:11:00 PM > From: Christian Roth [mailto:roth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 01 April, 2008 18:02 > To: XSL List > Subject: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string > > Hello, > > in XSLT 2, is there an easier or more efficient way to count > the occurrences of a certain character (here: 'X') in a string $s than > > string-length( string-join( tokenize( $s, "[^X]+" ), "" ) ) > How about string-length( replace( $s, '[^X]', '' ) ) which doesn't go through all that splitting and joining. Still I think someone can improve on my solution too. Andy. | ||||||
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