I have a Char column with text data like "ab:cdef:h" and I'd like to count the number of ":" in the column. I can't find an easy way to do it. I thought there should be a MySQL function to do this. Any suggestions?

select length('aa:bb:cc:dd')-length(replace('aa:bb:cc:dd',':',''));

btw ever heard of google?

t

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