How many times a string occurs in another string (textbox) VB.NET

Question

How can I get how many times a string occurs in a textbox?

I thought the find function would return the number of times found but it seems to return the location of it.

Answer 1

You can call Split, like this:

(" " + textBox1.Text + " ").Split(New String() { inputString }, StringSplitOptions.None);

Alternatively, you can keep calling IndexOf with the startIndex equal to the previous call's return value + 1 until it returns -1.

Answer 2

Regex.Matches(textBox1.Text, Regex.Escape(inputString)).Count