Get number of occurrences of one string in another

[Mike Bonner]

Me! Just because i'm contrary.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Aye, but after all, technically, for the question how many times does "pp"
> occur in "pppppp", the correct answer is 3, unless you care about the fact
> that pString overlaps. In that case the problem becomes more complex. But
> who would want to know that??
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > 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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