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anhvu
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8 years ago

How to count repeated strings in a line?

Hello,   Could you someone show me how to count repeated string in a line?    string a = "Hello how are you Hello, Hello, Hello. Hello"   I would like to count how many "Hello" in the  string. ...
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HKosova
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8 years ago

Here's another solution using a regular expression:

var str = "Hello how are you Hello, Hello, Hello. Hello";
var regexp = /Hello/g;
var count = 0;

var matches = str.match(regexp);
if (matches != null)
  count = matches.length;

Log.Message(count);  // 5