Is there a function which returns the number of a special character in a String?

Hi all,

is there a function which returns the number of "x" from the String "ABCxxDEFxGxHIJxxx"? (==> for example)

==> should return 7

Thanx all,
Andi

I dont think there is a function to get the count, but a function like countPattern in the below program should help.

public class PatternCount {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String str = "ABCxxDEFxGxHIJxxx";
System.out.println(countPattern(str,"x"));
}
public static int countPattern(String str,String pattern) {
int count = 0;
for(int i=-1;(i=str.indexOf(pattern,i+1)) >= 0;count++);
return count;
}
}



rums1976

Hi there,

thank you for your answer.

Unfortunatelly I am missing lot´s of functions in JAVA I had while I was programming with MFC - anyway, thank you very much!
Andi