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From: Martin Gross <m-gross@gmx.net>
Subject: Get counting of items
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:20:29 +0200
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Dear helpers,

I would like to get a counting of the first level items in a buffer
(or even better in a region).  Since I=E2=80=98m not a programmer I tried
this, which doesn=E2=80=98t work:

(defun org-items-counting ()
  "Print a message with the counting of the first level outline items
in the current buffer"
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
     (goto-char (point-min))
     (message "Counting of first level outline items: %d"
(count-matches "\n* "))))

Probably there is a very much better approaching to this problem.
Could please somebody help me?

Thanks in advance,

Martin