string.count

This function counts the number of non-overlapping instances of a substring in the input string.

Syntax

string.count(str, substr)

Argument	Type	Description
str	string	Source string
substr	string	Substring whose instances must be searched for in the source string

Type	Description
int	Number of instances of the substring in the string. If a substring is an empty string, the function returns 1 + the number of Unicode points in the input string.

The function string.count("hello flogo", "o") returns 3.

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