How to count occurrences of special type of character in string in php

Question

I have a string

Hobbies#14285723739878005#reading#Reading

I need the count of number of occurrence of '#' in the string. How to get that?

Answer 1

substr_count() should do what you need:

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_substr_count.asp

Answer 2

try this code:

<?php
echo substr_count("Hobbies#14285723739878005#reading#Reading","#");
?>

Output:-

3

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