count occurrences of string in string java code example

Example 1: find number of occurrences of a substring in a string java

public static int count(String str, String target) {
    return (str.length() - str.replace(target, "").length()) / target.length();
}

Example 2: how to count an replace substring string in java

String str = "helloslkhellodjladfjhello";
String findStr = "hello";
int lastIndex = 0;
int count = 0;
while(lastIndex != -1){
    lastIndex = str.indexOf(findStr,lastIndex);
    if(lastIndex != -1){
        count ++;
        lastIndex += findStr.length();
    }
}
System.out.println(count);

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