Re: Count instaces of charcter in field

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Barkster wrote:
I have a field that I want to count the number of times there is a
semicolon. I there anyway I can can do this in a query using sql?

Here are a couple of postings from the archives that use the standard
trick of a Sequence table of integers (and nothing from the Access UI)
to parse text:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba/msg/572c81477aea0d60

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access/msg/ec314002d0c63764

The VBA code is merely to reproduce the test databases. The SQL is Jet
SQL, therefore such an approach should work from your project.

Jamie.

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