On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Henrique Andrade wrote:

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One more thing: it would be great if we could have a function like this to
count the number of occurrences of a determined string. Something like this:

string S = "I like Gretl because Gretl is great and Gretl is complete"
scalar N = strscrapec(S, "Gretl") # strscrapc; String scrape counter
# result: N = 3

I don't like very much this either. If you need this sort of things regularly, then use python. IMO hansl should stay focused on statistics/econometrics. I can't really see a point in chasing python or Julia on the data mining field. But I'm open to changing my mind.