String count() method in Python
The count() method returns the number of occurrences of a substring in the string.
Syntax
string.count(substring,start,end)
Parameters
- substring - (Required) The substring to count in given string.
- start - (Optional) The index to start the search. Default is 0.
- end - (Optional) The index to end the search. Default is the end of the string.
The following example shows, how to use the count() method in python.
Example 1 : Count number of occurrences of a given substring
txt="This is sample text" n=txt.count("is") print("The count is ",n)
Output
The count is 2
Example 2 : Count number of occurrences of a given substring with start and end
txt="This is sample text" n=txt.count("is",4,10) print("The count is ",n)
Output
The count is 1