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[Solved] Lazarus - Count how often a word occurs in a string
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August 31, 2018 3:52 AM
I had a need for a small function that counts how often a certain word (or character sequence) existed in a give string.
This is what I cam up with, hope it's useful for someone :
...
uses ..., strutils, ...;
...
function CountOccurrences(ASubString: string; AString: string): integer;
var
offset: integer;
begin
result := 0;
offset := PosEx(ASubString, AString, 1);
while offset <> 0 do
begin
inc(result);
offset := PosEx(ASubString, AString, offset + length(ASubString));
end;
end;