How to Count a character in a long string

[inds7]

Hi,

 I have an text file seperated by tilde "~". I want to count how many Tilde's are in the File and store in the variable. That file is having only one large string as only seperator between the lines is "~". If I use Comp or Findstr commands, it gives me number of lines and that comes out to be 1 or it returns me the complete file itself.

I want to use the batch file to return me the count.

Please guide.

Thanks
Bharat

[Sidewinder]

Not sure you can do this in batch, but sometimes you have to think outside the box:

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Const ForReading = 1

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("[highlight]filenamegoeshere[/highlight]", ForReading)

strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close

arrTilde = Split(strText, "~")
Wscript.Echo Ubound(arrTilde)

After saving the script with a vbs extension, run as cscript scriptname.vbs

The irony is that the solution is in the box.

[inds7]

Thanks for your reply. I will try this method as doing with dos commands look tough at present.

thanks
bharat

[ghostdog74]

If you have Python :

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data = open("your_file_with_tilde.txt").read()
print data.count("~")