Hi,

On Dec 12, 2007 5:39 PM, mos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Char(50) column and I want to count the number of "." in the
> column using a Select statement. I don't see any MySQL function that can
> count the number of occurrences of a character in a string. Is there a
> simple way to do this?

LENGTH(str) - LENGTH(REPLACE(str, '.', ''))

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