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mornington · 12-01-2010, 10:58 PM

Is there any way to count the number of items in a comma-separated field, such as the list of authors?

Basically, I'm after creating a custom column which contains a count of the number of authors for each book (to make life easier when it comes to manually cross-linking books into different collections on the kindle, since you ask). But for the life of me I can't see an {authors_count} or (authors:count()} or similar.

12-01-2010, 10:58 PM	#1
mornington Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 732 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Sony PRS-650	Feature request: How many authors? Is there any way to count the number of items in a comma-separated field, such as the list of authors? Basically, I'm after creating a custom column which contains a count of the number of authors for each book (to make life easier when it comes to manually cross-linking books into different collections on the kindle, since you ask). But for the life of me I can't see an {authors_count} or (authors:count()} or similar.