There are several ways to do this i'm sure.
If you want to search a field you can use find in a function for the task
-- I put this in a button. Find empty ensures we start at the beginning of
the field.
-- the repeat loop goes until the findit function returns false, adding 1
to the total each successful find.
on mouseUp
find empty
repeat while findIt("p",the long id of field 1)
put the foundchunk & return after msg
add 1 to tCount
end repeat
put tCount after msg
end mouseUp
function findIt tString, tContainer
find string tString in tContainer
if the result is not "not found" then
return true
else
return false
end if
end findIt
Similar could be done with offset(), Loop with offset, using the
startposition from a previous successful offset to designate the starting
point for the next offset until no match is found.
The benefit of offset is that it can be used on any container, I believe
find is only for fields.
I don't think matchtext of matchchunk would work very well for this but I
could be wrong.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:19 PM, David Beck <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Is there any way, in the native LiveCode language, to check for the number
> of occurrences of one string in another? FOr example:
>
> put substringCount( "p", "apple" )
> // returns 2
>
> just curious
>
> Thanks!
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