Re: How to get count of a specific character

[Nicolas Richard]

Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a buffer which is a massive long line of names followed by
> semi-colon. I want to get a list of the number of names I have. I can
> highlight the region and use wc to get count of words and divide by 2
> to get a rough measure.
>
> But it would be an easy task if I could simply get a count of the number of 
> semi-colon characters?
>
> Does anyone know a way to get this?
>

highlight region and:
M-x count-matches RET ; RET

-- 
Nico.