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# Count different chars/column OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### ARB_NT/SAI/Other functions/Count different chars/column
## DESCRIPTION
### For each column in the alignment of the marked species, count the number of different base characters occurring. ### Write result as SAI 'COUNTED_CHARS' with the following interpretation:
    '0'       empty column
    '1'       only 1 base in this column (conserved column)
    '2'..'9'  2..9   different bases occurred
    'A'..'Z'  10..25 different bases occurred
## NOTES
### None
## EXAMPLES
### None
## WARNINGS
### None
## BUGS
### No bugs known