How to count found strings in Visual Studio Code

Once you have the search bar pulled up with Ctrl-F, click the triangle on the left side of the search bar. The occurrence count of your search term will be displayed.

Happy coding!

I had the same problem as csonuryilmaz mentioned in the comment to this answer, I needed the exact count of the string, even if it is 19999+. I ended up opening the file in Notepad++, there you can count all occurences when searching for a string.

Maybe not the best solution if you want/have to use only Visual Studio Code, but for my problem this was a good enough workaround.

On Windows, you can count string occurrences with the command FIND /C "string you're searching" filename.txt

So on VSCode, you can open the console (ctrl + ') and type the command. It's one workaround to count string on large files without have to install any new extensions.