Counting characters

[Eigensheep]

I feel really silly asking this, especially considering there's a help file, but I can't seem to find out how to count the number of occurences of a specific character.

What I would like to do is check a string, for example (4+5)+(3+2) for the number of occurences of the "+" character, and then I can cycle through each one using StringInStr($string,"+",$occurence) to get the location and then check if it is inside brackets or not.

So without knowing how many there are, the only way I can think of to do this is by going through every character one by one, which in long strings is inappropriate. Can someone help me please?

Thanks in advance.

[Eigensheep]

Now I feel stupid. Thanks for your reply.

[Siao]

StringReplace also works.

[weaponx]

$string = "(4+5)+(3+2)"

$count = CharCount($string, "+")

ConsoleWrite("COUNT: " & $count & @CRLF)

Func CharCount($sString, $cChar)
    Local $array = StringRegExp($sString, "\Q" & $cChar & "\E", 3)
    If IsArray($array) Then
        Return Ubound($array)
    Else
        Return 0
    EndIf
EndFunc

[zorphnog]

Or...

$text="(4+5)+(3+2)"
$aResult=StringRegExp($text, "\+", 4)
If Not @error Then MsgBox(0,"Occurences", UBound($aResult))

Edit: Oops too late

Edited May 20, 2008 by zorphnog