[ale] Bash script question

[Geoffrey]

Byron A Jeff wrote:
>>Is there a utility that I can run from bash that I can use to determine 
>>the number of times a certain character appears in a line?
>>
>>Example - I want to determine the number of times a comma (,) appears in 
>>the line:
>>
>>Field1,Field2,Field3,
>>
>>Yes, it can be done from Perl, but I would like to do this from bash.
> 
> 
> bash presumes to have all of the standard unix commands available. My entry is:
> 
> comma_count=$(echo $line | tr -cd , | wc -c)

Sweet, gotta love UNIX tools. :)

> 
> where the variable line has the Field1,... line in it.
> 
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