Read Text file and count occurences of certain string

Hello,
I have a text file with lines of data in it. I would like to read this text file and count how many lines match a certain string of text.
For example my text file has this data in it.
dog,blue,big
dog,red,small
dog,blue,big
cat,blue,big
If the certain string of text is "dog,blue,big" then the count would return "2".
Thanks for your help

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