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Count String Function In Python

In this article, we will discuss the count string function in Python.

Purpose

The count function counts the number of occurrences of a given string in another string.

Example

Consider the following example

str = "this is string example"

print ("number of occurrences of letter 'e' are:", str.count('e'))

Here I want to check the occurrence of the character ‘e’ in the string. Here ‘e’ comes twice in the word ‘example’. Now run the above code and you will get the following output.

Picture showing the output of count string function in python

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, February 20, 2019

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