count the splits

[ConsultingJoe]

Ok say I have a file that contains:

five|ten|three|five|six|ten|five

I want to count how many of each there are between the delimiter: "|". I dont know where they are or what they are though. I just cant think how to make a function for this.

the function would have to read me back something like,

five=3,ten=2 three=1 six=1

I hope you guys know what I mean.

Thanks a bunch

[3telnick]

use empty array.

while reading file use loop to tokenize it concerning "|" delimiter.

check against array if read token is already there.

if "Yes" increase value for the proper item of the array.

if "No" add new item with value "1".

should work

P.S.

"token" mentioned above is string you are looking for, that is "five", "ten", "six" etc.

Edited May 29, 2006 by 3telnick

[Rick]

something like this???

$String="five|ten|three|five|six|ten|five"

$Split=StringSplit($String,"|",0)

$line=""

For $z = 1 to $Split[0]

$array = StringSplit($String, $Split[$z], 1)

if Stringinstr($line,$Split[$z]) = 0 then $line=$line & $Split[$z] & " = " & $array[0]-1 & ", "

next

MsgBox(0,"",$line)

Count_Splits.au3

Edited May 29, 2006 by Rick

[ConsultingJoe]

something like this???

$String="five|ten|three|five|six|ten|five"

$Split=StringSplit($String,"|",0)

$line=""

For $z = 1 to $Split[0]

$array = StringSplit($String, $Split[$z], 1)

if Stringinstr($line,$Split[$z]) = 0 then $line=$line & $Split[$z] & " = " & $array[0]-1 & ", "

next

MsgBox(0,"",$line)

Thanks 3telnick and Rich. @Rick that was right on, thanks. I just kept getting confused when I was trying to do it.