It was suggested to use
substr_count ( implode( $haystackArray ), $needle );
instead of the function described previously, however this has one flaw. For example this array:
array (
0 => "mystringth",
1 => "atislong"
);
If you are counting "that", the implode version will return 1, but the function previously described will return 0.
substr_count
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
substr_count — Compte le nombre d'occurrences de segments dans une chaîne
Description
$haystack
, string $needle
[, int $offset = 0
[, int $length
]] )
substr_count() retourne le nombre d'occurrences
de needle dans la chaîne
haystack. Notez que needle
est sensible à la casse.
Note:
Cette fonction ne compte pas les chaînes de caractères qui se recouvrent. Voyez l'exemple ci-dessous !
Liste de paramètres
-
haystack -
La chaîne de caractères pour rechercher à l'intérieur
-
needle -
La chaîne de caractères que l'on recherche
-
offset -
Le décalage où on commence à compter
-
length -
La taille maximale après le décalage spécifié pour rechercher la chaîne. La fonction émet une erreur si le décalage plus la taille est plus grand que la taille de
haystack.
Valeurs de retour
Cette fonction retourne un entier.
Historique
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.1.0 |
Ajout des paramètres offset et
length
|
Exemples
Exemple #1 Exemple avec substr_count()
<?php
$text = 'Ceci est un test';
echo strlen($text); // 16
echo substr_count($text, 'est'); // 2
// la chaîne de caractères est réduite à 'st un test', alors elle affiche 1
echo substr_count($text, 'est', 6);
// le texte est réduit à 'st u', alors elle affiche 0
echo substr_count($text, 'est', 6, 4);
// génère une erreur parce que 8+10 > 16
echo substr_count($text, 'est', 8, 10);
// affiche seulement 1, parce que elle ne compte pas les chaînes de caractères
// qui se recouvrent
$text2 = 'gcdgcdgcd';
echo substr_count($text2, 'gcdgcd');
?>
Voir aussi
- count_chars() - Retourne des statistiques sur les caractères utilisés dans une chaîne
- strpos() - Cherche la position de la première occurrence dans une chaîne
- substr() - Retourne un segment de chaîne
- strstr() - Trouve la première occurrence dans une chaîne
a simple version for an array needle (multiply sub-strings):
<?php
function substr_count_array( $haystack, $needle ) {
$count = 0;
foreach ($needle as $substring) {
$count += substr_count( $haystack, $substring);
}
return $count;
}
?>
Yet another reference to the "cgcgcgcgcgcgc" example posted by "chris at pecoraro dot net":
Your request can be fulfilled with the Perl compatible regular expressions and their lookahead and lookbehind features.
The example
$number_of_full_pattern = preg_match_all('/(cgc)/', "cgcgcgcgcgcgcg", $chunks);
works like the substr_count function. The variable $number_of_full_pattern has the value 3, because the default behavior of Perl compatible regular expressions is to consume the characters of the string subject that were matched by the (sub)pattern. That is, the pointer will be moved to the end of the matched substring.
But we can use the lookahead feature that disables the moving of the pointer:
$number_of_full_pattern = preg_match_all('/(cg(?=c))/', "cgcgcgcgcgcgcg", $chunks);
In this case the variable $number_of_full_pattern has the value 6.
Firstly a string "cg" will be matched and the pointer will be moved to the end of this string. Then the regular expression looks ahead whether a 'c' can be matched. Despite of the occurence of the character 'c' the pointer is not moved.
In regards to anyone thinking of using code contributed by zmindster at gmail dot com
Please take careful consideration of possible edge cases with that regex, in example:
$url = 'http://w3.host.tld/path/to/file/..../file.extension';
$url = 'http://w3.host.tld/path/to/file/../file.extension?malicous=....';
This would cause a infinite loop and for example be a possible entry point for a denial of service attack. A correct fix would require additional code, a quick hack would be just adding a additional check, without clarity or performance in mind:
...
$i = 0;
while (substr_count($url, '../') && ++$i < strlen($url))
...
-Chris
It was previously noted that if you use "substr_count(implode(array))" with this array:
array (
0 => "mystringth",
1 => "atislong"
);
The following would result:
"If you are counting "that", the implode version will return 1, but the function previously described will return 0."
You can fix this by using substr_count(implode(' ', array), 'that') which will result in the following string: "mystringth atislong".
below was suggested a function for substr_count'ing an array, yet for a simpler procedure, use the following:
<?php
substr_count ( implode( $haystackArray ), $needle );
?>
I ran into trouble using this function when I moved a script from a server with PHP5 to a server with only PHP4.
As the last two parameters were added with 5.1.0, I wrote a substitute function:
<?php
function substr_count5($str,$search,$offset,$len) {
return substr_count(substr($str,$offset,$len),$search);
}
?>
Use it exactly as substr_count() is used in PHP5. (This will work in PHP5 as well.)
Making this case insensitive is easy for anyone who needs this. Simply convert the haystack and the needle to the same case (upper or lower).
substr_count(strtoupper($haystack), strtoupper($needle))
It should be noted that unlike the other substr functions, the offset value cannot be a negative value.
<?php
echo substr_count('abcdefg', 'efg', 4, 3); // 1
echo substr_count('abcdefg', 'efg', -3, 3); // warning
?>
For some who seeked for an easy way to resolve URL composed of /../ like http://w3.host.tld/path/to/the/file/../../file.extension, here is a solution
<?php
$url = 'http://w3.host.tld/path/to/file/../file.extension';
while (substr_count($url, "../"))
{
$url = preg_replace('#/[^/]+/\.\.#', '', $url);
}
//outputs 'http://w3.host.tld/path/to/file.extension'
?>
and seems to work perfectly!
