>>I have 250 records in a database called timep.
>>Each record has 100 fields called p1,p2,p3 ..... p100
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>>Is there a global search i can do for a tally of the numbers of times the symbol "|" appears in the whole database - without having to count through each field of each record - ie without using scan or for-endfor. ie one or two lines of code.
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>>thanks for any suggestions
>>k
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>Just a wild suggestion; since the file seems pretty small you could read the file in with FREAD() and then use OCCURS() perhaps?

tnx Jos - ended up with very similar solution from tore.
k