[SOLVED] Help with counting same numbers in a string.

[Adam1239]

Hi, I am quite new to php and i'm looking for a little help with counting how meny times the same number as come up in a string.

 

example: I'm useing a mysql database and the row i want to count reads "2-3-2-2-6".

So if i had something that could count how meny times the same number as come up in that row, it would return 3 because the 2 as come up 3 times. there as got to be an easyer way to archive this, other than doing it this way:

 

$p = explode("-",$fetch[$row]);

if($p[0] == "2" && $p[2] == "2" && $p[3] == "2"){ etc ...

 

i have been looking all over for a solution but just cant seem to find one. so if you could point me in the right direction it would help alot.

 

Thank you,

Adam.

[gurroa]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php

  $test = "2-3-2-2-6";
  for ($i = 0; $i < 9; ++$i) 
    echo $i.' is '.substr_count($test, $i).'x times'."<br />\n";

[Adam1239]

Hi, gurroa thank you for your reply, the example you gave is just what i was looking for!