How can I count the occurrence of a character in a string?
Example
String: 123-456-7890
I want to find the occurrence count of "-" in given string
How can I count the occurrence of a character in a string?
Example
String: 123-456-7890
I want to find the occurrence count of "-" in given string
You can simply do it like this:
NSString *string = @"123-456-7890";
int times = [[string componentsSeparatedByString:@"-"] count]-1;
NSLog(@"Counted times: %i", times);
Output:
Counted times: 2
This will do the work,
int numberOfOccurences = [[theString componentsSeparatedByString:@"-"] count];
I did this for you. try this.
unichar findC;
int count = 0;
NSString *strr = @"123-456-7890";
for (int i = 0; i<strr.length; i++) {
findC = [strr characterAtIndex:i];
if (findC == '-'){
count++;
}
}
NSLog(@"%d",count);
int total = 0;
NSString *str = @"123-456-7890";
for(int i=0; i<[str length];i++)
{
unichar c = [str characterAtIndex:i];
if (![[NSCharacterSet alphanumericCharacterSet] characterIsMember:c])
{
NSLog(@"%c",c);
total++;
}
}
NSLog(@"%d",total);
this worked. hope it helps. happy coding :)
int num = [[[myString mutableCopy] autorelease] replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"-" withString:@"X" options:NSLiteralSearch range:NSMakeRange(0, [myString length])];
The replaceOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range:
method returns the number of replacements that were made, so we can use that to work out how many -
s are in your string.
You can use replaceOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range:
method of NSString
The current selected answer will fail if the string starts or ends with the character you are checking for.
Use this instead:
int numberOfOccurances = (int)yourString.length - (int)[yourString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"-" withString:@""].length;