Comments on: Count occurence of character (i.e. line breaks) in a MySQL field

Comments on: Count occurence of character (i.e. line breaks) in a MySQL field http://www.jellyandcustard.com/2005/11/08/count-occurence-of-character-ie-line-breaks-in-a-mysql-field/ Web Development Blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:11:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: REB http://www.jellyandcustard.com/2005/11/08/count-occurence-of-character-ie-line-breaks-in-a-mysql-field/#comment-26 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:23:25 +0000 http://www.jellyandcustard.com/2005/11/08/count-occurence-of-character-ie-line-breaks-in-a-mysql-field/#comment-26 Great tip ! Note that if you count word occurences (several charcters) you'll have to divide by the number of char : SELECT (LENGTH(strContent) - LENGTH(REPLACE(strContent, '$strWord', ''))) / LENGTH('$strWord') AS intOccurence Great tip !
Note that if you count word occurences (several charcters) you'll have to divide by the number of char :

SELECT (LENGTH(strContent) - LENGTH(REPLACE(strContent, '$strWord', ''))) / LENGTH('$strWord') AS intOccurence

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