string_count

This function will return the amount of times the given substring appears within a specific string. In this way you can check for how many times a single letter or a phrase is repeated in a section of stored text.

 

Syntax:

string_count(substr, str);

ArgumentTypeDescription
substrStringThe substring to check the string for.
strStringThe string to check.

 

Returns:

Real

 

Example:

str1 = "Hello World";
ocount = string_count( "o", str1 );

This will set the variable ocount to the number of "o"s in str1, in this case 2.