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counting occurences of a keyword
Name: Infinite Recursion Date: March 5, 2004 at 06:19:57 Pacific OS: na CPU/Ram: na
Comment:
does anyone know of a function that will allow me to count the occurences of a keyword in a text file? im trying to count the number of calls to strlcpy that i am making in my c code.
Name: Don Arnett Date: March 5, 2004 at 09:53:14 Pacific
Reply:
You don't mention your OS.
In UNIX/Linux, you can use grep and wc to count occurrences
cat myprog.c | grep strlcpy | wc -l
The above command will tell you how many lines in myprog.c contain the string 'strlcpy'. Note, that isn't necessarily the same thing as the number of occurrences of 'strlcpy' (more than one occurrence on a line?)
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Response Number 2
Name: wizard-fred Date: March 5, 2004 at 17:06:12 Pacific
Reply:
Some word processors and text editors have a count function. Some might be part of the search/replace function.
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