RE: [sqr-users] quickest way to count how many commas are in a string

["the dragon" <ceprn@hotmail.com>]

I guess my question is why would you need this?  A comma deliminated file 
should always have the same number of commas in it, for every row.  If not, 
you wouldn't really know what data goes with what variable anyway, and that 
statement goes if you don't know how many commas are in the row of data.

If I have the row Clark, the dragon, Willis, 48, PeopleSloth Admin and any 
of those commas were missing, I wouldn't know what values would get placed 
into the corresponding variables, because I would never know which comma was 
missing.

peace,
clark 'the dragon' willis



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----Original Message Follows----

I have a string called $selectlist

I need to know how many commas are in it.
Once I know I can unstring it by commas into the right number of
variables and then use those variables
What is the simplest way to get a count of the commas?
Thanks!

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