[Regexp] Please help a newbie...

[Giuseppe Greco]

Hi to everybody.

I'm trying to count the occurrence of a single character
in a string with a regexp like this:

expr "1.3.4.5": 's/[^.]*//g'

... but I always get 0 as a result...

I need to know how many points are there in string "1.3.4.5"

What is wrong in my regexp?

Thanks a lot,

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Giuseppe Greco
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