count string replace occurances

[William Park]

Xah Lee <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:
> if i have
> mytext.replace(a,b)
> how to find out many many occurances has been replaced?

If 'a' and 'b' are different length,
    - Count the string length, before and after.  The difference should
      be multiple of difference between length of 'a' and 'b'.

If they are same length, 
    - Split 'mytext', and count items.

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