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-- Author : Abhishek Joshi
-- Date : 30 July, 2007
-- Desc : Count the Occurrence of Character in the string
-- Usage : select dbo.GetOccurrence('Abhishek Joshi','a')
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[GetOccurrence] ( @pInput VARCHAR(1000), @pSearchChar CHAR(1) )
RETURNS INT
BEGIN
DECLARE @vInputLength INT
DECLARE @vIndex INT
DECLARE @vCount INT
SET @vCount = 0
SET @vIndex = 1
SET @vInputLength = LEN(@pInput)
WHILE @vIndex <= @vInputLength
BEGIN
IF SUBSTRING(@pInput, @vIndex, 1) = @pSearchChar
SET @vCount = @vCount + 1
SET @vIndex = @vIndex + 1
END
RETURN @vCount
END
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