Counting occurrences of a string in a string

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My question is the following:

Is there a string function that returns a count of occurrences, like substr_count(), but with a limiting option? I want to count the occurrences of 'a' in a string, but before the first newline.

Amal · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-23 15:02:15Z

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You can use substr() with strpos() to grab everything before the newline character, and then use substr_count() to get the number of occurrences:

$text = substr($string, 0, strpos($string, "\n"));
echo substr_count($text, $needle);

Demo!

edited Oct 23, 2013 at 15:02

answered Oct 23, 2013 at 14:54

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Matt S Over a year ago

This is a faster solution than my answer.

Matt S · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-23 14:54:10Z

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I would use preg_match_all. It returns the count of matches. With a regex you can easily stop on a newline.

(Note: Amal's substr solution is faster than using a regular expression.)

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