Find All Occurrences of Specific Text in a String
Problem
You want to count how many times a certain word or sequence of characters occurs in a string.
Solution
Call the String.IndexOf method multiple times in a loop, until you reach the end of the string.
Discussion
The String class provides an IndexOf method that returns the location of the first match in a string. Fortunately, there is an overloaded version of IndexOf that enables you to specify a starting position for the search. By stepping through the string in a loop, specifying greater and greater start positions after each match, you can retrieve a list of all matches. (Another overload enables you to limit the number of characters the search will examine.)
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