Count number of instances of a text string

[ChuckWWW]

This should be easy to do, right? I'm not finding it in my function list. I have find and refind, but maybe there is a function or custom tag that will return the number of instances of a given substring within a larger text string?

Sorry if I am blanking on something terribly obvious.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Guest]

First do a Replace( ) function, replacing the substring with a character that is guaranteed not to be in your string (like a pipe (|)). Then do a ListLen, using that character as the list delimiter.

<CFSET foo = Replace(bigString, subString, "|", "ALL")>
<CFSET count = ListLen(foo, "|")>

[Guest]

No CF function, but you can roll your own. I used REFindNoCase in mine, by you could easily make "case-ness" an optional parameter to the function or just use the Finds instead.

[CRidgway]

This works along the same lines aas what jdeline posted.

getOccurenceCount()

CR