Count occurrences of a substring

Count occurrences of a substring
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

The task is to either create a function, or show a built-in function, to count the number of non-overlapping occurrences of a substring inside a string.
The function should take two arguments: the first argument being the string to search and the second a substring to be searched for.
It should return an integer count.

<lang pseudocode>print countSubstring("the three truths","th") 3

// do not count substrings that overlap with previously-counted substrings: print countSubstring("ababababab","abab") 2</lang>

The matching should yield the highest number of non-overlapping matches. In general, this essentially means matching from left-to-right or right-to-left (see proof on talk page).

Ada

<lang Ada>with Ada.Strings.Fixed, Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Count_Substrings is

  function Substrings(Main: String; Sub: String) return Natural is
     Idx: Natural :=  Ada.Strings.Fixed.Index(Source => Main, Pattern => Sub);
  begin
     if Idx = 0 then
        return 0;
     else
        return 1 + Substrings(Main(Idx+Sub'Length .. Main'Last), Sub);
     end if;
  end Substrings;

begin

  Ada.Text_IO.Put(Integer'Image(Substrings("the three truths", "th")));
  Ada.Text_IO.Put(Integer'Image(Substrings("ababababab", "abab")));

end Count_Substrings; </lang>

Output:

 3 2

ALGOL 68

Works with: ALGOL 68 version Revision 1 - no extensions to language used.

Works with: ALGOL 68G version Any - tested with release 1.18.0-9h.tiny.

Algol68 has no build in function to do this task, hence the next to create a count string in string routine. <lang algol68>#!/usr/local/bin/a68g --script #

PROC count string in string = (STRING needle, haystack)INT: (

 INT start:=LWB haystack, next, out:=0;
 FOR count WHILE string in string(needle, next, haystack[start:]) DO
   start+:=next+UPB needle-LWB needle;
   out:=count
 OD;
 out

);

printf(($d" "$,

 count string in string("th", "the three truths"),    # expect 3 #
 count string in string("abab", "ababababab"),        # expect 2 #
 count string in string("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"), # expect 2 #
 $l$

))</lang>

Output:

3 2 2 

AutoHotkey

While it is simple enough to parse the string, AutoHotkey has a rather unconventional method which outperforms this. StringReplace sets the number of replaced strings to ErrorLevel. <lang AutoHotkey>MsgBox % countSubstring("the three truths","th") ; 3 MsgBox % countSubstring("ababababab","abab")  ; 2

CountSubstring(fullstring, substring){

  StringReplace, junk, fullstring, %substring%, , UseErrorLevel
  return errorlevel

}</lang>

AWK

<lang AWK>#!/usr/local/bin/awk -f

 function countsubstring (str,pat) 
 {
   n=0;	
   while (match(str,pat)) {
       n++;

str = substr(str,RSTART+RLENGTH);

   }
   return n;
 }

 BEGIN {
   print countsubstring("the three truths","th");
   print countsubstring("ababababab","abab");
   print countsubstring(ARGV[1],ARGV[2]);
 }</lang>

Output:

$ ./countsubstring.awk aaaabacad aa
3
2
2

BASIC

Works with: QBasic

In FreeBASIC, this needs to be compiled with -lang qb or -lang fblite.

<lang qbasic>DECLARE FUNCTION countSubstring& (where AS STRING, what AS STRING)

PRINT "the three truths, th:", countSubstring&("the three truths", "th") PRINT "ababababab, abab:", countSubstring&("ababababab", "abab")

FUNCTION countSubstring& (where AS STRING, what AS STRING)

   DIM c AS LONG, s AS LONG
   s = 1 - LEN(what)
   DO
       s = INSTR(s + LEN(what), where, what)
       IF 0 = s THEN EXIT DO
       c = c + 1
   LOOP
   countSubstring = c

END FUNCTION</lang>

Output:

the three truths, th:        3
ababababab, abab:            2

See also: Liberty BASIC, PowerBASIC, PureBasic.

Applesoft BASIC

<lang ApplesoftBasic>10 F$ = "TH" 20 S$ = "THE THREE TRUTHS" 30 GOSUB 100"COUNT SUBSTRING 40 PRINT R 50 F$ = "ABAB" 60 S$ = "ABABABABAB" 70 GOSUB 100"COUNT SUBSTRING 80 PRINT R 90 END

100 R = 0 110 F = LEN(F$) 120 S = LEN(S$) 130 IF F > S THEN RETURN 140 IF F = 0 THEN RETURN 150 IF F = S AND F$ = S$ THEN R = 1 : RETURN 160 FOR I = 1 TO S - F 170 IF F$ = MID$(S$, I, F) THEN R = R + 1 : I = I + F - 1 180 NEXT I 190 RETURN</lang>

Batch File

<lang dos>@echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

::Main call :countString "the three truths","th" call :countString "ababababab","abab" pause>nul exit /b ::/Main

::Procedure

countString

set input=%~1 set cnt=0

:count_loop set trimmed=!input:*%~2=! if "!trimmed!"=="!input!" (echo.!cnt!&goto :EOF) set input=!trimmed! set /a cnt+=1 goto count_loop</lang>

Output:

3
2

BBC BASIC

<lang bbcbasic> tst$ = "the three truths"

     sub$ = "th"
     PRINT ; FNcountSubstring(tst$, sub$) " """ sub$ """ in """ tst$ """"
     tst$ = "ababababab"
     sub$ = "abab"
     PRINT ; FNcountSubstring(tst$, sub$) " """ sub$ """ in """ tst$ """"
     END
     
     DEF FNcountSubstring(A$, B$)
     LOCAL I%, N%
     I% = 1 : N% = 0
     REPEAT
       I% = INSTR(A$, B$, I%)
       IF I% THEN N% += 1 : I% += LEN(B$)
     UNTIL I% = 0
     = N%

</lang>

Output:

3 "th" in "the three truths"
2 "abab" in "ababababab"

Bracmat

<lang bracmat> ( count-substring

 =   n S s p
   .     0:?n:?p
       & !arg:(?S.?s)
       & @( !S
          :   ?
              ( [!p ? !s [?p ?
              & !n+1:?n
              & ~
              )
          )
     | !n
 )

& out$(count-substring$("the three truths".th)) & out$(count-substring$(ababababab.abab)) & ;</lang>

Output:

3
2

C

<lang C>#include <stdio.h>

1. include <string.h>

int match(const char *s, const char *p, int overlap) {

       int c = 0, l = strlen(p);

       while (*s != '\0') {
               if (strncmp(s++, p, l)) continue;
               if (!overlap) s += l - 1;
               c++;
       }
       return c;

}

int main() {

       printf("%d\n", match("the three truths", "th", 0));
       printf("overlap:%d\n", match("abababababa", "aba", 1));
       printf("not:    %d\n", match("abababababa", "aba", 0));
       return 0;

}</lang>

Alternate version: <lang c>#include <stdio.h>

1. include <string.h>

// returns count of non-overlapping occurrences of 'sub' in 'str' int countSubstring(const char *str, const char *sub) {

   int length = strlen(sub);
   if (length == 0) return 0;
   int count = 0;
   for (str = strstr(str, sub); str; str = strstr(str + length, sub))
       ++count;
   return count;

}

int main() {

   printf("%d\n", countSubstring("the three truths", "th"));
   printf("%d\n", countSubstring("ababababab", "abab"));
   printf("%d\n", countSubstring("abaabba*bbaba*bbab", "a*b"));

   return 0;

}</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

C++

<lang cpp>#include <iostream>

1. include <string>

// returns count of non-overlapping occurrences of 'sub' in 'str' int countSubstring(const std::string& str, const std::string& sub) {

   if (sub.length() == 0) return 0;
   int count = 0;
   for (size_t offset = str.find(sub); offset != std::string::npos;

offset = str.find(sub, offset + sub.length()))

   {
       ++count;
   }
   return count;

}

int main() {

   std::cout << countSubstring("the three truths", "th")    << '\n';
   std::cout << countSubstring("ababababab", "abab")        << '\n';
   std::cout << countSubstring("abaabba*bbaba*bbab", "a*b") << '\n';

   return 0;

}</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

C#

<lang c sharp>using System;

class SubStringTestClass {

  public static int CountSubStrings(this string testString, string testSubstring)
       {
           int count = 0;
           
           if (testString.Contains(testSubstring))
           {
               for (int i = 0; i < testString.Length; i++)
               {
                   if (testString.Substring(i).Length >= testSubstring.Length)
                   {
                       bool equals = testString.Substring(i, testSubstring.Length).Equals(testSubstring);
                       if (equals)
                       {
                           count++;
                           i += testSubstring.Length - 1;  // Fix: Don't count overlapping matches
                       }
                   }
               }
           }
           return count;
       }

}</lang>

Clojure

Use a sequence of regexp matches to count occurrences. <lang clojure> (defn count-substring [txt sub]

 (count (re-seq (re-pattern sub) txt)))

</lang>

Use the trick of blank replacement and maths to count occurrences. <lang clojure> (defn count-substring1 [txt sub]

 (/ (- (count txt) (count (.replaceAll txt sub "")))
    (count sub)))

</lang>

COBOL

INSPECT can be used for this task without having to create a function. <lang cobol> IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

      PROGRAM-ID. testing.

      DATA DIVISION.
      WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
      01  occurrences             PIC 99.

      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
          INSPECT "the three truths" TALLYING occurrences FOR ALL "th"
          DISPLAY occurrences

          MOVE 0 TO occurrences
          INSPECT "ababababab" TALLYING occurrences FOR ALL "abab"
          DISPLAY occurrences
          
          MOVE 0 TO occurrences
          INSPECT "abaabba*bbaba*bbab" TALLYING occurrences
              FOR ALL "a*b"
          DISPLAY occurrences

          GOBACK
          .</lang>

Output:

03
02
02

CoffeeScript

<lang coffeescript> countSubstring = (str, substr) ->

 n = 0
 i = 0
 while (pos = str.indexOf(substr, i)) != -1
   n += 1
   i = pos + substr.length
 n

console.log countSubstring "the three truths", "th" console.log countSubstring "ababababab", "abab" </lang>

Common Lisp

<lang lisp>(defun count-sub (str pat)

 (loop with z = 0 with s = 0 while s do

(when (setf s (search pat str :start2 s)) (incf z) (incf s (length pat))) finally (return z)))

(count-sub "ababa" "ab")  ; 2 (count-sub "ababa" "aba") ; 1</lang>

D

<lang d>void main() {

   import std.stdio, std.algorithm;

   "the three truths".count("th").writeln;
   "ababababab".count("abab").writeln;

}</lang>

Output:

3
2

Delphi

<lang Delphi>program OccurrencesOfASubstring;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses StrUtils;

function CountSubstring(const aString, aSubstring: string): Integer; var

 lPosition: Integer;

begin

 Result := 0;
 lPosition := PosEx(aSubstring, aString);
 while lPosition <> 0 do
 begin
   Inc(Result);
   lPosition := PosEx(aSubstring, aString, lPosition + Length(aSubstring));
 end;

end;

begin

 Writeln(CountSubstring('the three truths', 'th'));
 Writeln(CountSubstring('ababababab', 'abab'));

end.</lang>

Déjà Vu

<lang dejavu>!. count "the three truths" "th" !. count "ababababab" "abab"</lang>

Output:

3
2

Eiffel

<lang eiffel> class APPLICATION inherit ARGUMENTS create make feature {NONE} -- Initialization make -- Run application. do occurance := 0 from index := 1 until index > text.count loop temp := text.fuzzy_index(search_for, index, 0) if temp /= 0 then index := temp + search_for.count occurance := occurance + 1 else index := text.count + 1 end end print(occurance) end

index:INTEGER temp:INTEGER occurance:INTEGER text:STRING = "ababababab" search_for:STRING = "abab" end </lang>

Elixir

<lang elixir>countSubstring = fn(_, "") -> 0

                  (str, sub) -> length(String.split(str, sub)) - 1 end

data = [ {"the three truths", "th"},

        {"ababababab", "abab"},
        {"abaabba*bbaba*bbab", "a*b"},
        {"abaabba*bbaba*bbab", "a"},
        {"abaabba*bbaba*bbab", " "},
        {"abaabba*bbaba*bbab", ""},
        {"", "a"},
        {"", ""} ]

Enum.each(data, fn{str, sub} ->

 IO.puts countSubstring.(str, sub)

end)</lang>

Output:

3
2
2
7
0
0
0
0

Erlang

<lang Erlang> %% Count non-overlapping substrings in Erlang for the rosetta code wiki. %% Implemented by J.W. Luiten

-module(substrings). -export([main/2]).

%% String exhausted, present result match([], _Sub, _OrigSub, Acc) ->

 Acc;

%% Sub exhausted, count a match match(String, [], Sub, Acc) ->

 match(String, Sub, Sub, Acc+1);

%% First character matches, advance match([X|MainTail], [X|SubTail], Sub, Acc) ->

 match(MainTail, SubTail, Sub, Acc);

%% First characters do not match. Keep scanning for sub in remainder of string match([_X|MainTail], [_Y|_SubTail], Sub, Acc)->

 match(MainTail, Sub, Sub, Acc).

main(String, Sub) ->

  match(String, Sub, Sub, 0).</lang>

Command: <lang Erlang>substrings:main("ababababab","abab").</lang>

Output:

2

Alternative using built in functions: <lang Erlang> main( String, Sub ) -> erlang:length( binary:split(binary:list_to_bin(String), binary:list_to_bin(Sub), [global]) ) - 1. </lang>

Euphoria

<lang euphoria>function countSubstring(sequence s, sequence sub)

   integer from,count
   count = 0
   from = 1
   while 1 do
       from = match_from(sub,s,from)
       if not from then
           exit
       end if
       from += length(sub)
       count += 1
   end while
   return count

end function

? countSubstring("the three truths","th") ? countSubstring("ababababab","abab")</lang>

Output:

3
2

EGL

Works with: EDT

The "remove and count the difference" and "manual loop" methods. Implementation includes protection from empty source and search strings. <lang EGL>program CountStrings

   function main()
       SysLib.writeStdout("Remove and Count:");
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring("th", "the three truths"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring("abab", "ababababab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring("a", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring(" ", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring("", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring("a", ""));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstring("", ""));

       SysLib.writeStdout("Manual Loop:");
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop("th", "the three truths"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop("abab", "ababababab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop("a", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop(" ", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop("", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab"));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop("a", ""));
       SysLib.writeStdout(countSubstringWithLoop("", ""));
   end

   function countSubstring(substr string in, str string in) returns(int)
       if(str.length() > 0 and substr.length() > 0)

return (str.length() - str.replaceStr(subStr, "").length()) / subStr.length(); else return 0; end

   end 

   function countSubstringWithLoop(substr string in, str string in) returns(int)
       count int = 0;
       loc, index int = 1;
       strlen int = str.length();
       substrlen int = substr.length();

       if(strlen > 0 and substrlen > 0)
           while(loc != 0 and index <= strlen)
               loc = str.indexOf(substr, index);
               if(loc > 0)
                   count += 1;
                   index = loc + substrlen;
               end
           end
       end
       return count;
   end

end </lang>

Output:

Remove and Count:
3
2
2
7
0
0
0
0
Manual Loop:
3
2
2
7
0
0
0
0

Factor

<lang factor>USING: math sequences splitting ;

occurences ( seq subseq -- n ) split-subseq length 1 - ;</lang>

Forth

<lang forth>: str-count ( s1 len s2 len -- n )

 2swap 0 >r
 begin 2over search
 while 2over nip /string
       r> 1+ >r
 repeat 2drop 2drop r> ;

s" the three truths" s" th" str-count . \ 3 s" ababababab" s" abab" str-count . \ 2</lang>

Fortran

Works with: Fortran version 90 and later

<lang fortran>program Example

 implicit none
 integer :: n
 
 n = countsubstring("the three truths", "th")
 write(*,*) n
 n = countsubstring("ababababab", "abab")
 write(*,*) n
 n = countsubstring("abaabba*bbaba*bbab", "a*b")
 write(*,*) n

contains

function countsubstring(s1, s2) result(c)

 character(*), intent(in) :: s1, s2
 integer :: c, p, posn

 c = 0
 if(len(s2) == 0) return
 p = 1
 do 
   posn = index(s1(p:), s2)
   if(posn == 0) return
   c = c + 1
   p = p + posn + len(s2)
 end do

end function end program</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

F#

"Remove and count the difference" method, as shown by J, Java, ... <lang Fsharp>open System

let countSubstring (where :string) (what : string) =

   match what with
   | "" -> 0 // just a definition; infinity is not an int
   | _ -> (where.Length - where.Replace(what, @"").Length) / what.Length
   

[<EntryPoint>] let main argv =

   let show where what =
       printfn @"countSubstring(""%s"", ""%s"") = %d" where what (countSubstring where what)
   show "the three truths" "th"
   show "ababababab" "abab"
   show "abc" ""
   0</lang>

countSubstring("the three truths", "th") = 3
countSubstring("ababababab", "abab") = 2
countSubstring("abc", "") = 0

FunL

<lang funl>import util.Regex

def countSubstring( str, substr ) = Regex( substr ).findAllMatchIn( str ).length()

println( countSubstring("the three truths", "th") ) println( countSubstring("ababababab", "abab") )</lang>

Output:

3
2

Go

Using strings.Count() method: <lang go>package main import (

       "fmt"
       "strings"

)

func main() {

       fmt.Println(strings.Count("the three truths", "th")) // says: 3
       fmt.Println(strings.Count("ababababab", "abab"))     // says: 2

}</lang>

Groovy

Solution, uses the Groovy "find" operator (=~), and the Groovy-extended Matcher property "count": <lang groovy>println (('the three truths' =~ /th/).count) println (('ababababab' =~ /abab/).count) println (('abaabba*bbaba*bbab' =~ /a*b/).count) println (('abaabba*bbaba*bbab' =~ /a\*b/).count)</lang>

Output:

3
2
9
2

Haskell

<lang haskell> import Data.Text hiding (length)

-- Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of sub in str. countSubStrs str sub = length $ breakOnAll (pack sub) (pack str)

main = do

 print $ countSubStrs "the three truths" "th"
 print $ countSubStrs "ababababab" "abab"

</lang>

Output:

3
2

Icon and Unicon

<lang Icon>procedure main() every A := ![ ["the three truths","th"], ["ababababab","abab"] ] do

  write("The string ",image(A[2])," occurs as a non-overlapping substring ",
        countSubstring!A , " times in ",image(A[1]))

end

procedure countSubstring(s1,s2) #: return count of non-overlapping substrings c := 0 s1 ? while tab(find(s2)) do {

  move(*s2)
  c +:= 1
  }

return c end</lang>

Output:

The string "th" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 3 times in "the three truths"
The string "abab" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 2 times in "ababababab"

J

<lang j>require'strings' countss=: #@] %~ #@[ - [ #@rplc ;~]</lang>

In other words: find length of original string, replace the string to be counted with the empty string, find the difference in lengths and divide by the length of the string to be counted.

Example use:

<lang j> 'the three truths' countss 'th' 3

  'ababababab' countss 'abab'

2</lang>

Java

Works with: Java version 1.5+

The "remove and count the difference" method: <lang java>public class CountSubstring { public static int countSubstring(String subStr, String str){ return (str.length() - str.replace(subStr, "").length()) / subStr.length(); }

public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println(countSubstring("th", "the three truths")); System.out.println(countSubstring("abab", "ababababab")); System.out.println(countSubstring("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab")); } }</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

Works with: Java version 1.5+

The "split and count" method: <lang java>import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class CountSubstring { public static int countSubstring(String subStr, String str){ // the result of split() will contain one more element than the delimiter // the "-1" second argument makes it not discard trailing empty strings return str.split(Pattern.quote(subStr), -1).length - 1; }

public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println(countSubstring("th", "the three truths")); System.out.println(countSubstring("abab", "ababababab")); System.out.println(countSubstring("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab")); } }</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

Manual looping <lang java>public class CountSubstring { public static int countSubstring(String subStr, String str){ int count = 0; for (int loc = str.indexOf(subStr); loc != -1; loc = str.indexOf(subStr, loc + subStr.length())) count++; return count; }

public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println(countSubstring("th", "the three truths")); System.out.println(countSubstring("abab", "ababababab")); System.out.println(countSubstring("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab")); } }</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

JavaScript

Using regexes: <lang javascript>function countSubstring(str, subStr){ var matches=str.match(new RegExp(subStr, "g")); return matches?matches.length:0; }</lang>

jq

Using regexes (available in jq versions after June 19, 2014): <lang jq> def countSubstring(sub):

 [match(sub; "g")] | length;</lang>Example:<lang jq>

"the three truths" | countSubstring("th")</lang>

Julia

Built-in Function

matchall(r::Regex, s::String[, overlap::Bool=false]) -> Vector{String}

   Return a vector of the matching substrings from eachmatch.

Main <lang Julia> ts = ["the three truths", "ababababab"] tsub = ["th", "abab"]

println("Test of non-overlapping substring counts.") for i in 1:length(ts)

   print(ts[i], " (", tsub[i], ") => ")
   println(length(matchall(Regex(tsub[i]), ts[i])))

end println() println("Test of overlapping substring counts.") for i in 1:length(ts)

   print(ts[i], " (", tsub[i], ") => ")
   println(length(matchall(Regex(tsub[i]), ts[i], true)))

end </lang>

Output:

Test of non-overlapping substring counts.
the three truths (th) => 3
ababababab (abab) => 2

Test of overlapping substring counts.
the three truths (th) => 3
ababababab (abab) => 4

K

The dyadic verb _ss gives the positions of substring y in string x. <lang K> "the three truths" _ss "th" 0 4 13

 #"the three truths" _ss "th"

3

 "ababababab" _ss "abab"

0 4

 #"ababababab" _ss "abab"

2 </lang>

Lasso

<lang Lasso>define countSubstring(str::string, substr::string)::integer => { local(i = 1, foundpos = -1, found = 0) while(#i < #str->size && #foundpos != 0) => { protect => { handle_error => { #foundpos = 0 } #foundpos = #str->find(#substr, -offset=#i) } if(#foundpos > 0) => { #found += 1 #i = #foundpos + #substr->size else #i++ } } return #found } define countSubstring_bothways(str::string, substr::string)::integer => { local(found = countSubstring(#str,#substr)) #str->reverse local(found2 = countSubstring(#str,#substr)) #found > #found2 ? return #found | return #found2 } countSubstring_bothways('the three truths','th') //3 countSubstring_bothways('ababababab','abab') //2</lang>

Liberty BASIC

<lang lb> print countSubstring( "the three truths", "th") print countSubstring( "ababababab", "abab") end

function countSubstring( a$, s$)

   c =0
   la =len( a$)
   ls =len( s$)
   for i =1 to la -ls
       if mid$( a$, i, ls) =s$ then c =c +1: i =i +ls -1
   next i
   countSubstring =c

end function </lang>

Logtalk

Using atoms for string representation: <lang logtalk>

- object(counting).

   :- public(count/3).

   count(String, SubString, Count) :-
       count(String, SubString, 0, Count).

   count(String, SubString, Count0, Count) :-
       (   sub_atom(String, Before, Length, After, SubString) ->
           Count1 is Count0 + 1,
           Start is Before + Length,
           sub_atom(String, Start, After, 0, Rest),
           count(Rest, SubString, Count1, Count)
       ;   Count is Count0
       ).

- end_object.

</lang>

Output:

<lang text> | ?- counting::count('the three truths', th, N). N = 3 yes

| ?- counting::count(ababababab, abab, N). N = 2 yes </lang>

Lua

<lang lua>function Count_Substring( s1, s2 )

local magic =  "[%^%$%(%)%%%.%[%]%*%+%-%?]"
local percent = function(s)return "%"..s end
   return select( 2, s1:gsub( s2:gsub(magic,percent), "" ) )

end

print( Count_Substring( "the three truths", "th" ) ) print( Count_Substring( "ababababab","abab" ) )</lang>

3
2

Maple

<lang Maple> f:=proc(s::string,c::string,count::nonnegint) local n;

    n:=StringTools:-Search(c,s);
    if n>0 then 1+procname(s[n+length(c)..],c,count);
    else 0; end if;

end proc:

f("the three truths","th",0);

f("ababababab","abab",0); </lang>

Output:

                                      3

                                      2

Mathematica

<lang Mathematica>StringPosition["the three truths","th",Overlaps->False]//Length 3 StringPosition["ababababab","abab",Overlaps->False]//Length 2</lang>

MATLAB / Octave

<lang Matlab>  % Count occurrences of a substring without overlap

 length(findstr("ababababab","abab",0))
 length(findstr("the three truths","th",0))

 % Count occurrences of a substring with overlap
 length(findstr("ababababab","abab",1)) </lang>

Output:

>>   % Count occurrences of a substring without overlap
>>   length(findstr("ababababab","abab",0))
ans =  2
>>   length(findstr("the three truths","th",0))
ans =  3
>>   % Count occurrences of a substring with overlap
>>   length(findstr("ababababab","abab",1))
ans =  4
>> 

Maxima

<lang maxima>scount(e, s) := block(

  [n: 0, k: 1],
  while integerp(k: ssearch(e, s, k)) do (n: n + 1, k: k + 1),
  n

)$

scount("na", "banana"); 2</lang>

Mirah

<lang mirah>import java.util.regex.Pattern import java.util.regex.Matcher

1. The "remove and count the difference" method

def count_substring(pattern:string, source:string)

   (source.length() - source.replace(pattern, "").length()) / pattern.length()

end

puts count_substring("th", "the three truths") # ==> 3 puts count_substring("abab", "ababababab") # ==> 2 puts count_substring("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab") # ==> 2

1. The "split and count" method

def count_substring2(pattern:string, source:string)

   # the result of split() will contain one more element than the delimiter

# the "-1" second argument makes it not discard trailing empty strings

   source.split(Pattern.quote(pattern), -1).length - 1

end

puts count_substring2("th", "the three truths") # ==> 3 puts count_substring2("abab", "ababababab") # ==> 2 puts count_substring2("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab") # ==> 2

1. This method does a match and counts how many times it matches

def count_substring3(pattern:string, source:string)

   result = 0
   Matcher m = Pattern.compile(Pattern.quote(pattern)).matcher(source);
   while (m.find())
       result = result + 1
   end
   result

end

puts count_substring3("th", "the three truths") # ==> 3 puts count_substring3("abab", "ababababab") # ==> 2 puts count_substring3("a*b", "abaabba*bbaba*bbab") # ==> 2 </lang>

Nemerle

Translation of: F#

<lang Nemerle>using System.Console;

module CountSubStrings {

   CountSubStrings(this text : string, target : string) : int
   {
       match (target) {
           |"" => 0
           |_ => (text.Length - text.Replace(target, "").Length) / target.Length
       }
   }
   
   Main() : void
   {
       def text1 = "the three truths";
       def target1 = "th";
       def text2 = "ababababab";
       def target2 = "abab";
       
       WriteLine($"$target1 occurs $(text1.CountSubStrings(target1)) times in $text1");
       WriteLine($"$target2 occurs $(text2.CountSubStrings(target2)) times in $text2");
   }

}</lang>

Output:

th occurs 3 times in the three truths
abab occurs 2 times in ababababab

NetRexx

NetRexx provides the string.countstr(needle) built-in function:

<lang NetRexx>/* NetRexx */ options replace format comments java crossref symbols nobinary

-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ method countSubstring(inStr, findStr) public static

 return inStr.countstr(findStr)

-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ method main(args = String[]) public static

 strings = 
 find = 'FIND'
 ix = 0
 ix = ix + 1; strings[0] = ix; find[0] = ix; strings[ix] = 'the three truths'; strings[ix, find] = 'th'
 ix = ix + 1; strings[0] = ix; find[0] = ix; strings[ix] = 'ababababab';       strings[ix, find] = 'abab'
 
 loop ix = 1 to strings[0]
   str = strings[ix]
   fnd = strings[ix, find]
   say 'there are' countSubstring(str, fnd) 'occurences of "'fnd'" in "'str'"'
   end ix
 
 return

</lang>

Output:

there are 3 occurences of "th" in "the three truths"
there are 2 occurences of "abab" in "ababababab"

NewLISP

<lang NewLISP>; file: stringcount.lsp

url

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Count_occurrences_of_a_substring

author

oofoe 2012-01-29

Obvious (and non-destructive...)

Note that NewLISP performs an /implicit/ slice on a string or list

with this form "(start# end# stringorlist)". If the end# is omitted,

the slice will go to the end of the string. This is handy here to

keep removing the front part of the string as it gets matched.

(define (scount needle haystack)

 (let ((h (copy haystack)) ; Copy of haystack string.
       (i 0)               ; Cursor.
       (c 0))              ; Count of occurences.

   (while (setq i (find needle h))
     (inc c)
     (setq h ((+ i (length needle)) h)))

   c))                     ; Return count.

Tricky -- Uses functionality from replace function to find all

non-overlapping occurrences, replace them, and return the count of

items replaced in system variable $0.

(define (rcount needle haystack)

 (replace needle haystack "X") $0)

Test

(define (test f needle haystack)

 (println "Found " (f needle haystack) 
          " occurences of '" needle "' in '" haystack "'."))

(dolist (f (list scount rcount))

       (test f "glart" "hinkerpop")
       (test f "abab"  "ababababab")
       (test f "th"    "the three truths")
       (println)
       )

(exit)</lang>

Output:

Found 0 occurences of 'glart' in 'hinkerpop'.
Found 2 occurences of 'abab' in 'ababababab'.
Found 3 occurences of 'th' in 'the three truths'.

Found 0 occurences of 'glart' in 'hinkerpop'.
Found 2 occurences of 'abab' in 'ababababab'.
Found 3 occurences of 'th' in 'the three truths'.

Nim

<lang nim>import strutils

proc count(s, sub): int =

 var i = 0
 while true:
   i = s.find(sub, i)
   if i < 0:
     break
   i += sub.len # i += 1 for overlapping substrings
   inc result

echo count("the three truths","th")

echo count("ababababab","abab")</lang>

Output:

3
2

Objective-C

The "split and count" method: <lang objc>@interface NSString (CountSubstrings) - (NSUInteger)occurrencesOfSubstring:(NSString *)subStr; @end

@implementation NSString (CountSubstrings) - (NSUInteger)occurrencesOfSubstring:(NSString *)subStr {

 return [[self componentsSeparatedByString:subStr] count] - 1;

} @end

int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {

 @autoreleasepool {

   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"the three truths" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"th"]);
   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"ababababab" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"abab"]);
   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"abaabba*bbaba*bbab" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"a*b"]);

 }
 return 0;

}</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

The "remove and count the difference" method: <lang objc>@interface NSString (CountSubstrings) - (NSUInteger)occurrencesOfSubstring:(NSString *)subStr; @end

@implementation NSString (CountSubstrings) - (NSUInteger)occurrencesOfSubstring:(NSString *)subStr {

 return ([self length] - [[self stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:subStr withString:@""] length]) / [subStr length];

} @end

int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {

 @autoreleasepool {

   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"the three truths" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"th"]);
   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"ababababab" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"abab"]);
   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"abaabba*bbaba*bbab" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"a*b"]);

 }
 return 0;

}</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

Manual looping: <lang objc>@interface NSString (CountSubstrings) - (NSUInteger)occurrencesOfSubstring:(NSString *)subStr; @end

@implementation NSString (CountSubstrings) - (NSUInteger)occurrencesOfSubstring:(NSString *)subStr {

 NSUInteger count = 0;
 for (NSRange range = [self rangeOfString:subStr]; range.location != NSNotFound;
      range.location += range.length,
      range = [self rangeOfString:subStr options:0
                            range:NSMakeRange(range.location, [self length] - range.location)])
   count++;
 return count;

} @end

int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {

 @autoreleasepool {

   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"the three truths" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"th"]);
   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"ababababab" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"abab"]);
   NSLog(@"%lu", [@"abaabba*bbaba*bbab" occurrencesOfSubstring:@"a*b"]);

 }
 return 0;

}</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

OCaml

<lang ocaml>let count_substring str sub =

 let sub_len = String.length sub in
 let len_diff = (String.length str) - sub_len
 and reg = Str.regexp_string sub in
 let rec aux i n =
   if i > len_diff then n else
     try
       let pos = Str.search_forward reg str i in
       aux (pos + sub_len) (succ n)
     with Not_found -> n
 in
 aux 0 0

let () =

 Printf.printf "count 1: %d\n" (count_substring "the three truth" "th");
 Printf.printf "count 2: %d\n" (count_substring "ababababab" "abab");

</lang>

Oforth

<lang Oforth>func: countSubString(s, sub) {

  0 1 while(sub s indexOfAllFrom dup notNull) [ sub size + swap 1 + swap ] 
  drop

}</lang>

Output:

countSubString("the three truths", "th") println
3
countSubString("ababababab", "abab") println
2

ooRexx

<lang ooRexx>

bag="the three truths"
x="th"
say left(bag,30) left(x,15) 'found' bag~countstr(x)

bag="ababababab"
x="abab"
say left(bag,30) left(x,15) 'found' bag~countstr(x)

-- can be done caselessly too
bag="abABAbaBab"
x="abab"
say left(bag,30) left(x,15) 'found' bag~caselesscountstr(x)

</lang>

Output:

the three truths               th              found 3
ababababab                     abab            found 2
abABAbaBab                     abab            found 2

PARI/GP

<lang parigp>subvec(v,u)={ my(i=1,s); while(i+#u<=#v, for(j=1,#u, if(v[i+j-1]!=u[j], i++; next(2)) ); s++; i+=#u ); s }; substr(s1,s2)=subvec(Vec(s1),Vec(s2)); substr("the three truths","th") substr("ababababab","abab")</lang>

Output:

%1 = 3
%2 = 2

Pascal

See Delphi

Perl

<lang perl>sub countSubstring {

 my $str = shift;
 my $sub = quotemeta(shift);
 my $count = () = $str =~ /$sub/g;
 return $count;

1. or return scalar( () = $str =~ /$sub/g );

}

print countSubstring("the three truths","th"), "\n"; # prints "3" print countSubstring("ababababab","abab"), "\n"; # prints "2"</lang>

Perl 6

<lang perl6>sub count-substring($big,$little) { +$big.comb: /$little/ }

say count-substring("the three truths","th"); say count-substring("ababababab","abab");</lang> Note that in Perl 6 the /$little/ matches the variable literally, so there's no need to quote regex metacharacters. Also, prefix + forces numeric context in Perl 6 (it's a no-op in Perl 5). One other style point: we now tend to prefer hyphenated names over camelCase.

Phix

<lang Phix>sequence tests = {{"the three truths","th"},

                 {"ababababab","abab"},
                 {"ababababab","aba"},
                 {"ababababab","ab"},
                 {"ababababab","a"},
                 {"ababababab",""}}

integer start, count string test, substring for i=1 to length(tests) do

   start = 1
   count = 0
   {test, substring} = tests[i]
   while 1 do
       start = match(substring,test,start)
       if start=0 then exit end if
       start += length(substring)
       count += 1
   end while
   printf(1,"The string \"%s\" occurs as a non-overlapping substring %d times in \"%s\"\n",{substring,count,test})

end for</lang>

Output:

The string "th" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 3 times in "the three truths"
The string "abab" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 2 times in "ababababab"
The string "aba" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 2 times in "ababababab"
The string "ab" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 5 times in "ababababab"
The string "a" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 5 times in "ababababab"
The string "" occurs as a non-overlapping substring 0 times in "ababababab"

PHP

<lang php><?php echo substr_count("the three truths", "th"), "\n"; // prints "3" echo substr_count("ababababab", "abab"), "\n"; // prints "2" ?></lang>

PicoLisp

<lang PicoLisp>(de countSubstring (Str Sub)

  (let (Cnt 0  H (chop Sub))
     (for (S (chop Str)  S  (cdr S))
        (when (head H S)
           (inc 'Cnt)
           (setq S (map prog2 H S)) ) )
     Cnt ) )</lang>

Test:

: (countSubstring "the three truths" "th")
-> 3

: (countSubstring "ababababab" "abab")
-> 2

PL/I

<lang pli>cnt: procedure options (main);

  declare (i, tally) fixed binary;
  declare (text, key) character (100) varying;

  get edit (text) (L); put skip data (text);
  get edit (key)  (L); put skip data (key);

  tally = 0; i = 1;
  do until (i = 0);
     i = index(text, key, i);
     if i > 0 then do; tally = tally + 1; i = i + length(key); end;
  end;
  put skip list (tally);

end cnt;</lang>

Output for the two specified strings is as expected.

Output:

for the following data

TEXT='AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA';
KEY='AA';
        7 

PowerBASIC

Works with: PB/Win

Works with: PB/CC

Windows versions of PowerBASIC (at least since PB/Win 7, and possibly earlier) provide the TALLY function, which does exactly what this task requires (count non-overlapping substrings).

PB/DOS can use the example under BASIC, above.

Note that while this example is marked as working with PB/Win, the PRINT statement would need to be replaced with MSGBOX, or output to a file. (PB/Win does not support console output.)

<lang powerbasic>FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

   PRINT "the three truths, th:", TALLY("the three truths", "th")
   PRINT "ababababab, abab:", TALLY("ababababab", "abab")

END FUNCTION</lang>

Output:

the three truths, th:        3
ababababab, abab:            2

PureBasic

<lang PureBasic>a = CountString("the three truths","th") b = CountString("ababababab","abab")

a = 3

b = 2</lang>

PowerShell

Works with: PowerShell version 4.0

<lang PowerShell> [regex]::Matches("the three truths", "th").count </lang> Output:

3

<lang PowerShell> [regex]::Matches("ababababab","abab").count </lang> Output:

2

Prolog

Works with: SWI-Prolog version 7

Using SWI-Prolog's string facilities (this solution is very similar to the Logtalk solution that uses sub_atom/5):

<lang prolog>

count_substring(String, Sub, Total) :-

   count_substring(String, Sub, 0, Total).

count_substring(String, Sub, Count, Total) :-

   ( substring_rest(String, Sub, Rest)
   ->
       succ(Count, NextCount),
       count_substring(Rest, Sub, NextCount, Total)
   ;
       Total = Count
   ).

substring_rest(String, Sub, Rest) :-

   sub_string(String, Before, Length, Remain, Sub),
   DropN is Before + Length,
   sub_string(String, DropN, Remain, 0, Rest).

</lang>

Usage: <lang prolog> ?- count_substring("the three truths","th",X). X = 3.

?- count_substring("ababababab","abab",X). X = 2. </lang>

Python

<lang python>>>> "the three truths".count("th") 3 >>> "ababababab".count("abab") 2</lang>

R

The fixed parameter (and, in stringr, the function of the same name) is used to specify a search for a fixed string. Otherwise, the search pattern is interpreted as a POSIX regular expression. PCRE is also an option: use the perl parameter or function.

<lang rsplus>count = function(haystack, needle)

  {v = attr(gregexpr(needle, haystack, fixed = T)1, "match.length")
   if (identical(v, -1L)) 0 else length(v)}

print(count("hello", "l"))</lang>

Library: stringr

<lang rsplus>library(stringr) print(str_count("hello", fixed("l")))</lang>

Racket

<lang racket> (define count-substring

 (compose length regexp-match*))

</lang> <lang racket> > (count-substring "th" "the three truths") 3 > (count-substring "abab" "ababababab") 2 </lang>

REXX

Some older REXXes don't have the built-in function   countstr,   so one is included here.

The   countstr   subroutine (below) mimics the BIF in newer REXXes   (except for error checking).

Either of the first two strings may be null.

The third argument is optional and is the   start position   to start counting   (the default is the   1,   meaning the first character).
If specified, it must be a positive integer   (and it may exceed the length of the 1^st string).

The third argument was added here to be compatible with the newer REXXes BIF.

No checks are made (in the   countstr   subroutine) for:

•   missing arguments
•   too many arguments
•   if   start   is a positive integer (when specified)

<lang rexx>/*REXX pgm counts the occurrences of a (non─overlapping) substring in a string*/ w=. /*max. width so far.*/ bag='the three truths'  ; x='th'  ; call showResult bag='ababababab'  ; x='abab'  ; call showResult bag='aaaabacad'  ; x='aa'  ; call showResult bag='abaabba*bbaba*bbab' ; x='a*b'  ; call showResult bag='abaabba*bbaba*bbab' ; x=' '  ; call showResult bag=  ; x='a'  ; call showResult bag=  ; x=  ; call showResult bag='catapultcatalog'  ; x='cat'  ; call showResult bag='aaaaaaaaaaaaaa'  ; x='aa'  ; call showResult exit /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */ /*────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ countstr: procedure; parse arg haystack,needle,start /*get the arguments.*/ if start== then start=1; width=length(needle)

                              do $=0  until p==0;  p=pos(needle,haystack,start)
                              start=p+width              /*prevent overlaps. */
                              end   /*$*/

return $ /*return the count. */ /*────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ showResult: _= '═' /*the char (double bar) used in title. */ if w==. then do; w=30; n=w%2 /*W: width of largest haystack; N=½W */

            say center('haystack',w  ) center('needle',n  ) center('count',5  )
            say center(        ,w,_) center(      ,n,_) center(     ,5,_)
            end
                                      /* [↓]  handle showing of null strings.*/

if bag== then bag=' (null)' if x== then x=' (null)' say left(bag,w) left(x,n) center(countstr(bag,x),5) /*display the result.*/ return</lang>

Output:

           haystack                needle      count
══════════════════════════════ ═══════════════ ═════
the three truths               th                3
ababababab                     abab              2
aaaabacad                      aa                2
abaabba*bbaba*bbab             a*b               2
abaabba*bbaba*bbab                               0
 (null)                        a                 0
 (null)                         (null)           1
catapultcatalog                cat               2
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa                 aa                7

Ruby

<lang ruby>def countSubstrings str, subStr

 str.scan(subStr).length

end

p countSubstrings "the three truths", "th" #=> 3 p countSubstrings "ababababab", "abab" #=> 2</lang>

String#scan returns an array of substrings, and Array#length (or Array#size) counts them.

Run BASIC

<lang runbasic>print countSubstring("the three truths","th") print countSubstring("ababababab","abab")

FUNCTION countSubstring(s$,find$) WHILE instr(s$,find$,i) <> 0

 countSubstring = countSubstring + 1
 i = instr(s$,find$,i) + len(find$)

WEND END FUNCTION</lang>

Output:

3
2

Scala

Using Recursion

<lang scala>import scala.annotation.tailrec def countSubstring(str1:String, str2:String):Int={

  @tailrec def count(pos:Int, c:Int):Int={
     val idx=str1 indexOf(str2, pos)
     if(idx == -1) c else count(idx+str2.size, c+1)
  }
  count(0,0)

}</lang>

Using Regular Expressions

<lang scala>def countSubstring( str:String, substr:String ) = substr.r.findAllMatchIn(str).length</lang>
<lang scala>println(countSubstring("ababababab", "abab")) println(countSubstring("the three truths", "th"))</lang>

Output:

2
3

Scheme

Works with: Gauche Scheme

<lang Scheme>gosh> (use gauche.lazy)

1. <undef>

gosh> (length (lrxmatch "th" "the three truths")) 3 gosh> (length (lrxmatch "abab" "ababababab")) 2 </lang>

Seed7

<lang seed7>$ include "seed7_05.s7i";

const func integer: countSubstring (in string: stri, in string: searched) is func

 result
   var integer: count is 0;
 local
   var integer: offset is 0;
 begin
   offset := pos(stri, searched);
   while offset <> 0 do
     incr(count);
     offset := pos(stri, searched, offset + length(searched));
   end while;
 end func;

const proc: main is func

 begin
   writeln(countSubstring("the three truths", "th"));
   writeln(countSubstring("ababababab", "abab"));
 end func;</lang>

Output:

3
2

Sidef

Built-in: <lang ruby>say "the three truths".count("th"); say "ababababab".count("abab");</lang>

User-created function: <lang ruby>func countSubstring(s, ss) {

   var re = Regex.new(ss.escape, 'g');      # 'g' for global
   var counter = 0;
   while (s =~ re) { ++counter };
   return counter;

}

say countSubstring("the three truths","th"); say countSubstring("ababababab","abab");</lang>

Output:

3
2

SNOBOL4

<lang SNOBOL4>

       DEFINE("countSubstring(t,s)")

       OUTPUT = countSubstring("the three truths","th")
       OUTPUT = countSubstring("ababababab","abab")

       :(END)

countSubstring t ARB s = :F(RETURN)

       countSubstring = countSubstring + 1 :(countSubstring)

END 3 2 </lang>

Standard ML

<lang sml>fun count_substrings (str, sub) =

 let
   fun aux (str', count) =
     let
       val suff = #2 (Substring.position sub str')
     in
       if Substring.isEmpty suff then
      	  count
       else
         aux (Substring.triml (size sub) suff, count + 1)
     end
 in
   aux (Substring.full str, 0)
 end;

print (Int.toString (count_substrings ("the three truths", "th")) ^ "\n"); print (Int.toString (count_substrings ("ababababab", "abab")) ^ "\n"); print (Int.toString (count_substrings ("abaabba*bbaba*bbab", "a*b")) ^ "\n");</lang>

TUSCRIPT

<lang tuscript> $$ MODE TUSCRIPT, {} occurences=COUNT ("the three truths", ":th:") occurences=COUNT ("ababababab", ":abab:") occurences=COUNT ("abaabba*bbaba*bbab",":a\*b:") </lang>

Output:

3
2
2

Tcl

The regular expression engine is ideal for this task, especially as the ***= prefix makes it interpret the rest of the argument as a literal string to match: <lang tcl>proc countSubstrings {haystack needle} {

   regexp -all ***=$needle $haystack

} puts [countSubstrings "the three truths" "th"] puts [countSubstrings "ababababab" "abab"] puts [countSubstrings "abaabba*bbaba*bbab" "a*b"]</lang>

Output:

3
2
2

TXR

<lang txr>@(next :args) @(do (defun count-occurrences (haystack needle)

      (for* ((occurrences 0)
             (old-pos 0)
             (new-pos (search-str haystack needle old-pos nil)))
            (new-pos occurrences)
            ((inc occurrences)
             (set old-pos (+ new-pos (length needle)))
             (set new-pos (search-str haystack needle old-pos nil))))))

@ndl @hay @(output) @(count-occurrences hay ndl) occurrences(s) of @ndl inside @hay @(end)</lang>

$ ./txr count-occurrences.txr "baba" "babababa"
2 occurence(s) of baba inside babababa
$ ./txr count-occurrences.txr "cat" "catapultcatalog"
2 occurence(s) of cat inside catapultcatalog

UNIX Shell

Works with: Bash

<lang bash>#!/bin/bash

function countString(){ input=$1 cnt=0

until [ "${input/$2/}" == "$input" ]; do input=${input/$2/} let cnt+=1 done echo $cnt }

countString "the three truths" "th" countString "ababababab" "abab"</lang>

Output:

3
2

VBA

<lang VBA>Function CountStringInString(stLookIn As String, stLookFor As String)

   CountStringInString = UBound(Split(stLookIn, stLookFor))

End Function</lang>

VBScript

<lang vb> Function CountSubstring(str,substr) CountSubstring = 0 For i = 1 To Len(str) If Len(str) >= Len(substr) Then If InStr(i,str,substr) Then CountSubstring = CountSubstring + 1 i = InStr(i,str,substr) + Len(substr) - 1 End If Else Exit For End If Next End Function

WScript.StdOut.Write CountSubstring("the three truths","th") & vbCrLf WScript.StdOut.Write CountSubstring("ababababab","abab") & vbCrLf </lang>

Output:

3
2

Wortel

<lang wortel>@let {

 c &[s t] #!s.match &(t)g

 [[
   !!c "the three truths" "th"
   !!c "ababababab" "abab"
 ]]

}</lang>

Returns:

[3 2]

XPL0

<lang XPL0>include c:\cxpl\codes; \intrinsic 'code' declarations string 0; \use zero-terminated strings, instead of MSb terminated

func StrNCmp(A, B, N); \Compare string A to string B up to N bytes long \This returns: \ >0 if A > B \ =0 if A = B \ <0 if A < B char A, B; \strings to be compared int N; \number of bytes to compare int I; [for I:= 0 to N-1 do

   if A(I) # B(I) then
       return A(I) - B(I);

return 0; \they're equal ]; \StrNCmp

func StrLen(Str); \Return the number of characters in an ASCIIZ string char Str; int I; for I:= 0 to -1>>1-1 do

       if Str(I) = 0 then return I;

func SubStr(A, B); \Count number of times string B occurs in A char A, B; int LA, LB, C, I; [LA:= StrLen(A); LB:= StrLen(B); C:= 0; I:= 0; while I < LA do

       if StrNCmp(B, A+I, LB) = 0 then [C:= C+1;  I:= I+LB]
       else I:= I+1;

return C; ];

[IntOut(0, SubStr("the three truths", "th")); CrLf(0);

IntOut(0, SubStr("ababababab", "abab"));  CrLf(0);

]</lang>

Output:

3
2

>>   % Count occurrences of a substring without overlap
>>   length(findstr("ababababab","abab",0))
ans =  2
>>   length(findstr("the three truths","th",0))
ans =  3
>>   % Count occurrences of a substring with overlap
>>   length(findstr("ababababab","abab",1))
ans =  4
>>

zkl

Two solutions: <lang zkl>fcn countSubstring(s,p){ pn:=p.len(); cnt:=n:=0;

  while(Void!=(n:=s.find(p,n))){cnt+=1; n+=pn}
  cnt

}</lang>

Translation of: J

<lang zkl>fcn countSubstring(s,p){ (pl:=p.len()) and (s.len()-(s-p).len())/pl }</lang>

Output:

zkl: println(countSubstring("the three truths","th"))
3
zkl: println(countSubstring("ababababab","abab"))
2
zkl: println(countSubstring("ababababab","v"))
0