Count number of Charter in a string with separator

[d4xtian]

HI, guys

I have a variable that has a value of:

Variable type string value 'A,BC,D,E' .

i want to count the number of entryor character in the variable... to be precise 'BC' is considering as a entry... so here we have 4 entry....

Hope it is clear,

THanks

[FredericGirod]

you could do it with split and could the number of lines in the table. Or you could do it manually with a Do. Enddo. Testing each character ...

[d4xtian]

I find this solution that it work but seem not right.

FIND ALL OCCURRENCES OF separator
IN Variable
MATCH COUNT count .
" Here is to add the number before the first comma
count = count + 1 .

what do you think ?

[Sandra_Rossi]

SPLIT variable AT ',' INTO TABLE DATA(segments).