Finding the number of occurance in a string

Question

Hi Can someone tell me if there is a function to tell me how many times a string occurs in another string for example how many times does
"cat"
appear in
"cat dog catcat dogdog cat cat"

Answer 1

Praveen_Forum wrote:
Try in the similar lines
String name = "cat dog catcat dogdog cat cat";
char pattern = 'c';
int occurs = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < name.length(); i++) {
char next = name.charAt(i);
if(next == pattern) {
occurs++;
System.out.println("Occurs " + occurs + " time(s)");
for a string:
String name = "cat dog catcat dogdog cat cat";
String toFind = "cat";
int occurs = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < name.length()-toFind.length()+1; i++)
    if (name.substring(i, i+toFind.length()).equals(toFind))
       occurs++;
System.out.println(occurs);