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Re: [PHP4BETA] New function chrcount From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/24/00

At 03:58 PM 4/24/00 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> > You'll have to forgive me, I'm not entirely familiar with all the inner
> > workings of PHP, so I'm not exactly sure what the function does. I think
> > the complication arises because we are looking for all occurences, not
> > just a single occurence.
> >
> > For example take the following call str_count("aaaaaa", "aa")
> >
> > If we're just doing something like strpos then that's easy. However, in
> > this case is the answer 3 or is it 5? Its that kind of complication that
> > I was trying to avoid.
>
>You can really simplify it if you assume that after you match a string
>you simply start matching at the end of the previous match. So, in this
>case it would find 3 occurrences. I don't think the alternative is very
>useful.

I agree with this kind of behavior. You don't want to get 5 matches on this
one.

Andi 

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