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Characters Count Function Without Looping

Posted Date: 04 Jul 2008	Resource Type: Code Snippets	Category: SQL
Author: Deepa	Member Level: Diamond
Rating:	Points: 10

The following sample shows an alternative way to determine the number of times a certain character occurs in a given string without using a loop



CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufn_CountChar] ( @pInput VARCHAR(1000), @pSearchChar CHAR(1) )
RETURNS INT
BEGIN

RETURN (LEN(@pInput) - LEN(REPLACE(@pInput, @pSearchChar, '')))

END
GO

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