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From: | Nicolas Richard |
Subject: | Re: How to get count of a specific character |
Date: | Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:44:21 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes: > I have a buffer which is a massive long line of names followed by > semi-colon. I want to get a list of the number of names I have. I can > highlight the region and use wc to get count of words and divide by 2 > to get a rough measure. > > But it would be an easy task if I could simply get a count of the number of > semi-colon characters? > > Does anyone know a way to get this? > highlight region and: M-x count-matches RET ; RET -- Nico.
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