How many instances of a string?

Can someone please post a code that will return a number of how many instances of a string are in a string? For example:

"my name is tim tim is a dumb name i hate people named tim"

I want a code to return "3" (for the 3 instances of tim) for that. Please help!

 

Here is your answer : Occurrence of a word in php

 

Or easier yet: www.php.net/substr_count

 

Thanks nico

but would this return the same if the word was a part of a word like "tim went to timhorton" substr_count would return 2 while the real would return 1 . right ?

 

Yep, that's right.

However, the OP didn't state whether he wants to count these occurrences or not. We'll see I guess.

 

Hey nico_swd you are zend certified .. gr8
M sun certified.

 

in javascript, you can easily do that using regular expressions. i guess thats available in php as well. pls chek on that ..........

 

Yes I am. And nice one. I never got around Java.

Yes, you could also use preg_match_all(). It might even be faster than the explode/foreach version. Not sure though.

$word = 'tim';
$occurrences = preg_match_all("~(^|\s){$word}(\s|$)~", $string);

echo $occurrences;

PHP:

Untested but should do the job as well.

 

Why don't you go to w3schools.com.
I hope then you can find it by your self.


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you should be banned

1- your post is worthless
2- you are spamming with a fake link in your signature
3- we are not stupid here it's DP grow up kid