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substr_count

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substr_countCuenta el número de apariciones del substring

Descripción

substr_count(
    string $haystack,
    string $needle,
    int $offset = 0,
    int $length = ?
): int

substr_count() devuelve el número de veces en que el substring needle aparece en el string haystack. Por favor nótese que needle es sensible a mayúsculas y minúsculas.

Nota:

Esta función no cuenta las subcadenas que se traslapan. Véase el ejemplo de abajo!

Parámetros

haystack

El string dentro del cual buscar

needle

El substring a buscar

offset

El desplazamiento por dónde empezar a contar

length

La longitud máxima después del desplazamiento especificado para buscar el substring. Se emite una advertencia si offset más length es mayor que la longitud de haystack.

Valores devueltos

Esta función devuelve un integer.

Historial de cambios

Versión Descripción
5.1.0 Los parámetros offset y length fueron agregados

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo de substr_count()

<?php
$text
= 'This is a test';
echo
strlen($text); // 14

echo substr_count($text, 'is'); // 2

// el string es reducido a 's is a test', así que muestra 1
echo substr_count($text, 'is', 3);

// el texto es reducido a 's i', así que muestra 0
echo substr_count($text, 'is', 3, 3);

// genera una advertencia debido a que 5+10 > 14
echo substr_count($text, 'is', 5, 10);


// muestra sólo 1, debido a que no cuenta subcadenas traslapadas.
$text2 = 'gcdgcdgcd';
echo
substr_count($text2, 'gcdgcd');
?>

Ver también

  • count_chars() - Devuelve información sobre los caracteres usados en una cadena
  • strpos() - Encuentra la posición de la primera ocurrencia de un substring en un string
  • substr() - Devuelve parte de una cadena
  • strstr() - Encuentra la primera aparición de un string

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User Contributed Notes 10 notes

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tuxedobob
7 years ago
It's worth noting this function is surprisingly fast. I first ran it against a ~500KB string on our web server. It found 6 occurrences of the needle I was looking for in 0.0000 seconds. Yes, it ran faster than microtime() could measure.

Looking to give it a challenge, I then ran it on a Mac laptop from 2010 against a 120.5MB string. For one test needle, it found 2385 occurrences in 0.0266 seconds. Another test needs found 290 occurrences in 0.114 seconds.

Long story short, if you're wondering whether this function is slowing down your script, the answer is probably not.
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flobi at flobi dot com
17 years ago
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))
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tweston at bangordailynews dot com
8 years ago
To account for the case that jrhodes has pointed out, we can change the line to:

substr_count ( implode( ',', $haystackArray ), $needle );

This way:

array (
0 => "mystringth",
1 => "atislong"
);

Becomes

mystringth,atislong

Which brings the count for $needle = "that" to 0 again.
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3
jrhodes at roket-enterprises dot com
14 years ago
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.
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info at fat-fish dot co dot il
16 years ago
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;
}
?>
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XinfoX X at X XkarlX X-X XphilippX X dot X XdeX
20 years ago
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.
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qeremy [atta] gmail [dotta] com
10 years ago
Unicode example with "case-sensitive" option;

<?php
function substr_count_unicode($str, $substr, $caseSensitive = true, $offset = 0, $length = null) {
if (
$offset) {
$str = substr_unicode($str, $offset, $length);
}

$pattern = $caseSensitive
? '~(?:'. preg_quote($substr) .')~u'
: '~(?:'. preg_quote($substr) .')~ui';
preg_match_all($pattern, $str, $matches);

return isset(
$matches[0]) ? count($matches[0]) : 0;
}

function
substr_unicode($str, $start, $length = null) {
return
join('', array_slice(
preg_split('~~u', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY), $start, $length));
}

$s = 'Ümit yüzüm gözüm...';
print
substr_count_unicode($s, 'ü'); // 3
print substr_count_unicode($s, 'ü', false); // 4
print substr_count_unicode($s, 'ü', false, 10); // 1

print substr_count_unicode($s, 'üm'); // 2
print substr_count_unicode($s, 'üm', false); // 3
?>
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gigi at phpmycoder dot com
15 years ago
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 );
?>
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chrisstocktonaz at gmail dot com
14 years ago
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
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php at blink dot at
9 years ago
This will handle a string where it is unknown if comma or period are used as thousand or decimal separator. Only exception where this leads to a conflict is when there is only a single comma or period and 3 possible decimals (123.456 or 123,456). An optional parameter is passed to handle this case (assume thousands, assume decimal, decimal when period, decimal when comma). It assumes an input string in any of the formats listed below.

function toFloat($pString, $seperatorOnConflict="f")
{
$decSeperator=".";
$thSeperator="";

$pString=str_replace(" ", $thSeperator, $pString);

$firstPeriod=strpos($pString, ".");
$firstComma=strpos($pString, ",");
if($firstPeriod!==FALSE && $firstComma!==FALSE) {
if($firstPeriod<$firstComma) {
$pString=str_replace(".", $thSeperator, $pString);
$pString=str_replace(",", $decSeperator, $pString);
}
else {
$pString=str_replace(",", $thSeperator, $pString);
}
}
else if($firstPeriod!==FALSE || $firstComma!==FALSE) {
$seperator=$firstPeriod!==FALSE?".":",";
if(substr_count($pString, $seperator)==1) {
$lastPeriodOrComma=strpos($pString, $seperator);
if($lastPeriodOrComma==(strlen($pString)-4) && ($seperatorOnConflict!=$seperator && $seperatorOnConflict!="f")) {
$pString=str_replace($seperator, $thSeperator, $pString);
}
else {
$pString=str_replace($seperator, $decSeperator, $pString);
}
}
else {
$pString=str_replace($seperator, $thSeperator, $pString);
}
}
return(float)$pString;
}

function testFloatParsing() {
$floatvals = array(
"22 000",
"22,000",
"22.000",
"123 456",
"123,456",
"123.456",
"22 000,76",
"22.000,76",
"22,000.76",
"22000.76",
"22000,76",
"1.022.000,76",
"1,022,000.76",
"1,000,000",
"1.000.000",
"1022000.76",
"1022000,76",
"1022000",
"0.76",
"0,76",
"0.00",
"0,00",
"1.00",
"1,00",
"-22 000,76",
"-22.000,76",
"-22,000.76",
"-22 000",
"-22,000",
"-22.000",
"-22000.76",
"-22000,76",
"-1.022.000,76",
"-1,022,000.76",
"-1,000,000",
"-1.000.000",
"-1022000.76",
"-1022000,76",
"-1022000",
"-0.76",
"-0,76",
"-0.00",
"-0,00",
"-1.00",
"-1,00"
);

echo "<table>
<tr>
<th>String</th>
<th>thousands</th>
<th>fraction</th>
<th>dec. if period</th>
<th>dec. if comma</th>
</tr>";

foreach ($floatvals as $fval) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . (string) $fval . "</td>";

echo "<td>" . (float) toFloat($fval, "") . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . (float) toFloat($fval, "f") . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . (float) toFloat($fval, ".") . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . (float) toFloat($fval, ",") . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
}
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