Re: How to count the number of occurrences of a character in a string?

[Joost Kremers]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> the subject line says it all.  Is there any built-in Elisp function to
> do that?

Not that I know of.

>  Should I just use cl-count?

That's one option, if you don't mind depending on cl.

Alternatively, split-string may be of help:

(length (split-string "abcbdbeb" "[^b]" t)) ==> 4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)

But that's rather opaque, so you might want to add a comment to tell
your future self what you're doing here...



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