Re: [PHP4BETA] New function chrcount

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:58:45 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote: >On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Kovacs wrote: >> 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. More importantly, if it's clearly documented that str_count() does not count overlapping matches, the few people who actually need to do such a thing can roll their own function. I doubt many people would have problems with a function which does what 99% of the users need but ommits a special case.