How many times does a character appear

Joey Martin wrote on 09 dec 2005 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:
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> I've done this before but cannot remember how.
>
> I have a field (FIELDNAME) in a sql2k environment.
>
> I just need to know how many times an "_" appears in that field.
>
> Pretty simple, but I cannot figure it out right now.[/color]


ASP-js:

t = 'qwe_rtyq_uerty'
n = t.replace(/[^_]/g,'').length


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