Re: [PHP4BETA] New function chrcount

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Kovacs wrote: > You'll have to forgive me, I'm not entirely familiar with all the inner > workings of PHP, so I'm not exactly sure what the function does. I think > the complication arises because we are looking for all occurences, not > just a single occurence. > > For example take the following call str_count("aaaaaa", "aa") > > If we're just doing something like strpos then that's easy. However, in > this case is the answer 3 or is it 5? Its that kind of complication that > I was trying to avoid. You can really simplify it if you assume that after you match a string you simply start matching at the end of the previous match. So, in this case it would find 3 occurrences. I don't think the alternative is very useful. -Andrei * Non-volatile, random-access, analog memory store... a book. *