String.Contains Count?

[ceestand]

Can anyone point me in the direction of functionality that will provide the number of times a String contains a given substring? Preferably in C# and/or built in to the .Net framework...

[Plater]

There's probably a better way to do this (Such as the overloads for .IndexOf()... ) but whatever.

string n="freddrandr";
 
int count=0;
for(int i=0;i<n.length;i++)
{
   if (n.SubString(i).StartsWith("dr"))
   {
      count++;
   } 
}
//count will be 2
 

[ceestand]

Thanks for your help.

[ceestand]

For anyone interested, this is what I ended up using:

public Int32 ContainsCount(String SearchPhrase, String SearchText) {
String Remains = SearchText;
Int32 NewIndex = 0;
Int16 Count = 0;
while (Remains.Length >= SearchPhrase.Length)
{
NewIndex = Remains.IndexOf(SearchPhrase);

if (NewIndex >= 0)
{
Count++;
Remains = Remains.Substring(NewIndex + SearchPhrase.Length);
}
else
{
return Count;
}

}
return Count;
}