silly awk question

[ns705]

Hi,

I'm very sorry for bothering you with such simple thing.
But it seems I could not find a way between three trees.

I have a variable which contains some text, I need to know the number of some chars in this text.
For ex., var="abc lalala new xyz new". I need to know the number of "new" chars in this variable.
Does any variable in awk exist which contain the number of matchs?

Thank you in advance.
Anta

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
nbNew=gsub(/new/,"new",var)


Hope This Help, PH.
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[ns705]

Thank you!
Sure it's what I need.
I'm sorry I could not find it by myself.
Apparently, today is not my day.

Thank you a lot.

Anta