How to count the number of occurrences of a substring in a larger string in python

python

Software and digital electronics / Coding

2023-01-04 10:03

Setup

I have a python string like

superstring = '/aaa/bbb/ref/ccc/ddd/ref/eee/fff/'
substring1 = '/'
substring2 = '/ref/'

I would like to count the number of occurrences of substring1 and substring2 inside the superstring.

How can I achieve that?

Answered by ernest1

2023-01-04 10:21

Use .count() function for this purpose. The commands

superstring.count('/')
superstring.count(substring2)

will return

9
2