Get number of occurrences of one string in another

[Mike Bonner]

Was a pretty snazzy solution. Only problem I can see is if you were
searching say for "pp" in a string that has "pppppp" (you get what I mean)
 If you want to match 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, 4 and 5, 5 and 6 it won't
work but if you want to match and eliminate 1 2, 3 4 etc its dandyfine. So
it would depend on the desired result.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> I am everyone's Uncle. Still, no repeat loops needed. See my solution.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:44 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote:
>
> > The offset() function has a third parameter: chars to skip. So if you
> call offset in a loop with the third param set to the previous result, and
> count loops until it returns 0, Bob's your uncle.
> >
> > On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
> >
> >> function substringCount pChar, pString
> >>    put 0 into theCount
> >>    repeat for each char theChar in pString
> >>         if theChar is pChar then
> >>              add 1 to theCount
> >>         end if
> >>    end repeat
> >>    return theCount
> >> end substringCount
> >>
> >>
> >> Would work out nicely if there is not built in function for this.
> >>
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