[ale] Bash script question

[Bob Kruger]

Is there a utility that I can run from bash that I can use to determine 
the number of times a certain character appears in a line?

Example - I want to determine the number of times a comma (,) appears in 
the line:

Field1,Field2,Field3,

Yes, it can be done from Perl, but I would like to do this from bash.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Bob

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