How to count the number of instances a record appears in a string

I have a move that imports Name, Department and Site from an
external CSV file, this part I managed to get working after many
weeks. I would like to be able to count the number of instances of
a specific Site “Glasgow” appears in the String. This
way I know how many lines to set.
Also can you add Dynamic text to a rollover button? I can get
the the text to display on the root but not on a button.
I am new to programming and Flash so apologies in
advance.

Those which took time to read carefully *_iWork Formulas and Functions User Guide_* are aware of the availability of wildcard characters.
=COUNTIFI(range;"=text")
will do the trick.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 26 avril 2010 17:36:34

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Count the number of instances a record appears in a string

I have a move that imports Name, Department and Site from an
external CSV file, this part I managed to get working after many
weeks. I would like to be able to count the number of instances of
a specific Site “Glasgow” appears in the String. This
way I know how many lines to set.
Also can you add Dynamic text to a rollover button? I can get
the the text to display on the root but not on a button.
I am new to programming and Flash so apologies in
advance.

Hi,
length(REGEXP_REPLACE(':XXX:CCC:BBB:','[[:alnum:]]'))counts all kinds of punctuation, spaces, etc., not just colons. Change any (or all) of the colons to periods and it will still return 4. Use '[^:]' instead of '[[:alnum:]]' if you really want to count just colons.
Also, "SELECT ... FROM dual" is usually needed only in SQL*Plus or similar front end tools. In PL/SQL, you can call functions without a query, like this:
x := NVL (LENGTH (REGEXP_REPLACE (txt, '[^:]')), 0);

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In the below code am trying to read the lines which are selected using a check box, also am categorizing the contents depending on the follow up material.
after displaying one category contents am displaying a line
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In the below code am trying to read the lines which are selected using a check box, also am categorizing the contents depending on the follow up material.
after displaying one category contents am displaying a line
which also counts to a line in the internal table.
My question is how to count the number of lines(ULINE) displayed dynamically.
FORM GET_LINES .
DATA: LV_LINES TYPE I,
        LV_TIMES TYPE I,
        LV_TABIX TYPE SY-TABIX.
DESCRIBE TABLE IT_REC LINES LV_LINES.
DO LV_LINES TIMES.
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ENDDO.
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FORM DISPLAY_DATA .
ULINE.
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          IT_MARC-PARTC TO IT_REC-PARTC .
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    CLEAR IT_MARC.
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DATA: GV_TABIX TYPE SY-TABIX.
LOOP AT IT_REC.
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ABL¯ABQ¯480¯825¯DLS¯AMA¯ABQ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
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UNION
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         3
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Simon
For deleting significant number of rows best practice is to delete rows in small batches of known size (e.g. 10 K) inside a while loop.
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