How to count word instances in a string

[darko]

hello im doing a small rss project and i'm stuck at trying to count how many items are in the feed, my question is: how can i count the instances of a word, in this case <item> in a string(source), thanks

[tlhintoq]

You could do a string.split which will produce an array, then count the number of elements.

[darko]

yeah, thought of that, but string.split will only split at the first occurrence so i'll end up with an array of 2 elements

[tlhintoq]

Who told you that hogwash?
You should actually look things up rather than trusting locker room gossip.

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[darko]

thanks alot dude, that did the trick!!