substr_count
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Counting the occurrences of a substring within a string of characters id done in Ruby using a combination of
String#scanto scan for the word andArray#lengthto count the occurrences.PHP
print substr_count("the cat in the hat", "the"); // => 2
Ruby
puts "the cat in the hat".scan("the").length # => 2
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