Counting the occurrence of a certain character in string

ユーザー049533

Hello there,

I was wondering if there is a way to count the occurrence of a certain character in a string.

 

Specifically, I have a column that contains the gender information (M or F) of each data entry. 

All of the data entries are grouped according to a unique key, and while grouping, the gender column is collapsed with a comma between each entry belonging to that group.

Now I need to count the number of M's and F's for each group.

 

Could you please advise if this can be done.

Thank you in advance. 

 

Best,

Roxie

jaeW_at_Onyx

yes.

calculate the length of your string.

then subtract the length of your string if you replace the search character with a blank.

ex. length('mf_string') - length(replace( 'mf_string', 'M', ''))