the number of occurrences of a character in the text string

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How can I count the number of occurrences of a character in the text string and prints that number in the message box?
Ex :

" Words Inside Words Words Inside Words "

How many occurrences of the letter S in this sentence ?

Posted 7-Dec-12 13:33pm

mazen albarakani

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Dec-12 21:37pm

Abuse!
--SA

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Solution 1

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—SA

Answering this weird question requires short text which I'm trying to create adding this insignificant comment.

Posted 7-Dec-12 15:34pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 7-Dec-12 15:36pm

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Glencel Villarmente Alangilan · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-08T07:58:00

Solution 3

VB

Dim s As String = " Words Inside Words Words Inside Words "
MessageBox.Show(s.ToCharArray.Count(Function(ch) ch = "s"c).ToString)

Posted 8-Dec-12 7:58am

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ridoy 9-Dec-12 0:57am

+5

ridoy · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-07T19:20:00

Solution 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5193893/count-specific-character-occurances-in-string[^]
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=1025[^]

Posted 7-Dec-12 19:20pm

ridoy