DCOUNT

Syntax	DCOUNT( string.expression1, string.expression2 )
Category	BASIC
Type	Function
Description	returns the number of occurrences of the delimiter specified in "string.expression2" within "string.expression1", plus one. The difference between this function and the "count" function is that 1 is added to the result unless the string referenced in "string.expression1" is null.
Options
See Also	u201e functions COUNT
Example	string = "a" : char(254) : "b" : char(254) : "c" how.many = dcount(string,char(254)) for amc = 1 to how.many crt string<amc> next amc "how.many" contains the number of attributes in "string". In this example, there are 3 and each attribute is displayed to the terminal on a separate line. input sentence sentence = trim(sentence) maxwords = dcount(sentence,' ') for wordcnt = 1 to maxwords print field(sentence,' ',wordcnt) next wordcnt In this example, "sentence" is entered from the keyboard. The string in "sentence" is trimmed of excess blanks, and the number of words delimited by spaces is counted using "dcount". The words are then printed on separate lines.
Warnings
Compatibility	D3 7.0 AP R83