Re: Counting ; character

Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Tue, December 15, 2009 2:57 pm, epanda wrote:
>> Sorry, the search command send cursor where occurence is found : here
>> => ;;
>>
>> cursor is here
>> |
>> V
>> ;foo1;foo;;bar => should return 3
>
> Ok, so your cursor in on the first of the 2 consecutive ';;', right?
> And from your example above, it should return 2?
>
> I would actually use something like this:
>
> :echo len(split(getline('.')[0:col('.')-1], ';'))

I'd have done something like

echo strlen(substitute(getline('.')[:col('.')-1], '[^;]', '', 'g'))

but either works well.

-tim

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