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A Visual FoxPro built-in function which returns the number of times a character expression occurs within another character expression.

 

Syntax

Occurs(cSearchExpressioncExpressionSearched)

 

Argument

cSearchExpression

Specifies a character expression that OCCURS( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched.

cExpressionSearched

Specifies the character expression OCCURS( ) searches for cSearchExpression.

 

Return Value

Numeric

 

Example

Occurs('a', 'abraca')

Returns 3

 

Occurs('b', 'abraca')

Returns 1

 

Occurs('e', 'abraca')

Returns 0

 

 


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