Character Counting Functions

Alpha Five provides the following character counting functions.

Function

 

Description

COUNT_TEXTBLOCKS()

V6

Returns the number of instances of the variable length Find_Text found in Search_in_Text.

INCREMENT_VALUE()

V5

Increments the value referenced by Variable by one.

LEN()

V5

Counts the number of characters in a string.

OCCURS()

V5

Returns the number of times the Find_String is found in the Search_In_String. Case sensitive.

OCCURSI()

V5

Returns the number of times the Find_String is found in the Search_In_String. Case insensitive.

OCCURS_WORDS()

V5

Returns the number of times Word appears in Search_In_List.

WORD_OCCURS()

V5

Returns the number of times Word appears in Search_In_List.

W_COUNT()

V5

Returns an integer Count equal to the number of words in the specified Input_String.

See Also

Character Functions