counting specific characters in a string 3

[JeroenBoon]

Hello,

(This must be a simple one, but I can't find the answer...)
whe I would like to count a specific character in a string, is there a formula for that? For instance: I want to count the character / in the description of articles.

Thanks, Jeroen.

 

[huggyd]

don't know if there is a simpler way than this but here's my idea

len({fieldname}) - len(replace({fieldname},'char to find',''))

replacing {fieldname} with the field to check and char to find with the character to look for.

 

[JeroenBoon]

@ huggyd:

thanks for your answer. I came up with your solution myself, but I thought that for something as simple as this there would be a formula like count({string},"/") that I just can't find...

Jeroen.