NAME¶

count-substring - (strings)

PURPOSE¶

Count substrings.

SYNTAX¶

count-substring <substring> in <string> to <count> [ case-insensitive [ <case insensitive> ] ]

DESCRIPTION¶

count-substring counts the number of occurrences of <substring> in <string> and stores the result in <count> (specified in "to" clause). By default, search is case-sensitive. If you use "case-insensitive" clause without boolean variable <case insensitive>, or if <case insensitive> evaluates to true, then the search is case-insensitive.

If <substring> is empty (""), <count> is 0.

EXAMPLES¶

In the following example, 1 occurrence will be found after the first count-substring, and 2 after the second (since case insensitive search is used there):

set-string sub = "world"
set-string str = "Hello world and hello World!"
count-substring sub in str to num_occ
print-format "Found %ld occurrences!\n", num_occ
count-substring sub in str to num_occ case-insensitive
print-format "Found %ld occurrences!\n", num_occ

SEE ALSO¶

Strings

concatenate-strings copy-string count-substring delete-string lower-string new-string read-split replace-string set-string split-string string-length trim-string upper-string write-string See all documentation