ISPF Edit ‘Count’ macro

Just a little macro I put together to count the number of occurrences of a string in a file when editing it.

/* rexx */ 
ADDRESS ISREDIT "MACRO (text)" 
 
if text = '' then do 
 say 'Nothing to search for. Enter text to search for ith cmd' 
 return 0 
 end 
 
address isredit "find all "text 
address isredit "(num,lines) = FIND_COUNTS" 
num=num+0 
lines=lines+0 
s='' 
if num > 1 then s='s' 
ls='' 
if lines > 1 then ls='s' 
on='' 
if lines > 0 then on = ' on 'lines' line'ls 
say 'Found 'num' occurance's' of 'text||on

To run it, just type count followed by the string to search for, and any other parameters such as the column number on the command line when in edit and press enter. E.G.

COUNT ‘some string’

or

COUNT NAME 1

 

 

 

 

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