Oneliner to count the number of tabs in each line of a file

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Published on 2009-08-11T21:46:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 0:48 UTC
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I have a file that is tab delimited. I would like a powershell script that counts the number of tabs in each line. I came up with this:

${C:\tabfile.txt} |% {$_} | Select-String \t | Measure-Object | fl count

it yields 3, Which is the number of lines in the file.

any pointers to what I'm doing wrong? I would like it to print a single number for each line in the file.

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