Is there a string function for counting occurances of substrings?

[Jason Barnett]

I thought I had seen a method for returning the number of occurances of a
substring within a string object, but I can't seem to find it now. Does
anyone know of something?

I know I can parse the substrings and count them using a loop, but I'm
looking for a single function or method to simplify the process.

 

[Zoury]

Hi Jason ! :O)

Does anyone know of something?

I know I can parse the substrings and count them using a loop, but I'm
looking for a single function or method to simplify the process.

You could use the Regex.Split() method and look at the Length of the string
array being returned..

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Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Public Class MyApplication

Public Shared Sub Main()

Dim s As String = "alTESTskdjfTESTTESTklaTESTsdf"

Console.WriteLine(StrCount(s, "TEST"))

End Sub

Public Shared Function StrCount(ByVal text As String, ByVal find As
String) As Int32

Return Regex.Split(text, find).Length - 1

End Function

End Class
'**

 

[Jason Barnett]

Thanks

Hi Jason ! :O)


You could use the Regex.Split() method and look at the Length of the
string array being returned..

'**
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Public Class MyApplication

Public Shared Sub Main()

Dim s As String = "alTESTskdjfTESTTESTklaTESTsdf"

Console.WriteLine(StrCount(s, "TEST"))

End Sub

Public Shared Function StrCount(ByVal text As String, ByVal find As
String) As Int32

Return Regex.Split(text, find).Length - 1

End Function

End Class
'**