Not sure in DOS, but in Foxpro take a look at the OCCURS function

>Hi,
>
> I have an text file seperated by tilde "~". I want to count how many Tilde's are in the File. That file is having only one large string. If I use Comp or Findstr commands, it gives me number of lines and that comes out to be 1 or it returns me the complete file itself.
>
>Please guide.
>
>Thanks
>Bharat