Method Name:
count
Method Signature:
count(sub[, start[, end]])
Method Overview:
- The method count() of str class returns the number of occurrences of a substring.
- The count method can be supplied with start and end positions for the substring search.
- When the start position and stop position are specified search for the substring starts and stops at the specified positions.
Example:
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pangram = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" strint2Count = "fox" occurences = pangram.count(strint2Count) print("Number of times substring occured:{}".format(occurences))
mainString = "The man we saw saw a saw" strint2Count = "saw" occurences = mainString.count(strint2Count) print("Number of times substring occured:{}".format(occurences))
# Specify the start and stop positions of the string occurences = mainString.count(strint2Count, 15, len(mainString)) print("Number of times substring occured(with start and stop specified):{}".format(occurences)) |
Output:
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Number of times substring occured:1 Number of times substring occured:3 Number of times substring occured(with start and stop specified):2 |