count en

Counts the occurrence of a search pattern in a buffer.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example
append	bool	The result is appended in the destination buffer.	append
input	bufferName	This buffer is counted. Default: input	input=addresses
output	bufferName	The result is written into this buffer. Default: output	output=result
marker	character	Defines a placeholder for the result number in template. Default: '#'	marker=*
template	string	Template of what the result message looks like. Must contain marker. Default: the value of marker	template="# hits: *"
what	pattern	Search pattern: String (also interpolated) or regular expression	what="address" what=r/\d+/

Examples

The "input" buffer contains:

Be or not to be, that's the question!
Hic Rhodes, Hic salta!

Command:

count what="e"

After that it says in "output": 4 Commands:

count what=r/\S+/ template="# words" output=statistic
count regexpr=r/[.;!?]/ t=', # sets' o=statistic append
count regexpr=r/./ t=', # characters' o=statistic append

Then the buffer says "statistic":

12 words, 2 sentences, 59 characters