Difference between revisions of "OCCURS()"

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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
[[AT()]], [[ATNEXT()]], [[INLIST()]], [[LEFT()]], [[RAT()]], [[RIGHT()]], [[STR()]], [[STREXTRACT()]], [[STRTRAN()]], [[STUFF()]], [[SUBSTR()]]
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[[AT()]], [[ATNEXT()]], [[INLIST()]], [[LEFT()]], [[RAT()]], [[RIGHT()]], [[SET STRESCAPE]], [[STR()]], [[STREXTRACT()]], [[STRTRAN()]], [[STUFF()]], [[SUBSTR()]]
  
  

Latest revision as of 12:05, 21 July 2010

Purpose

Function to return the number of times a specified character expression occurs within another specified character expression.


Syntax

OCCURS(<expC1>,<expC2>)


See Also

AT(), ATNEXT(), INLIST(), LEFT(), RAT(), RIGHT(), SET STRESCAPE, STR(), STREXTRACT(), STRTRAN(), STUFF(), SUBSTR()


Description

The OCCURS() function returns the number of times the character expression <expC1> is found in character expression <expC2>. A value of zero is returned if <expC1> does not exist in <expC2>. The character matching is case sensitive.


Example

? occurs("a", "Recital DAO Classes for Java")
         4


Products

Recital, Recital Server