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Created October 25, 2012 18:56
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Count occurrences of needle (substring) in haystack (string)
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<?php
// Just thought this was really cool and fast way to count occurrences of a string within a string
// @author Thai
// @link http://stackoverflow.com/a/4736219/781824
$needle = 'AGUXYZ';
$haystack = 'Agriculture ID XYZ-A';
$count = strlen($haystack) - strlen(str_replace(str_split($needle), '', $haystack));
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Neo1981 commented May 2, 2013

very handy!

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