How to get amount of specific chars/letters from a string? Like "Potato" has 2 "o".

Question

Like in "M a r c u s" string has 5 spaces, ASCII of space is 32, "Potato" has 2 "o". How we do this?

I tried doing with ASCII and a for loop, couldn't make it work.

Comments

Might be redundant, but this is linked question to my original problem before:

https://godotengine.org/qa/69724/get_visible_characters-count-spaces-possibly-godot3-stable

Answer 1

The count() function on strings should work.

e.g:

print("M a r c u s".count(" ")) will return and output 5

It's a lot simpler than you were trying!

Answer 2

Like you said, a for loop works:

var count = 0
for character in "Potato":
    if character == "o":
        count += 1
print(count)

Or you can use a regex. I recommend learning about regexes if you want to do more advanced string processing.

var regex = RegEx.new()
regex.compile("o")
var count = regex.search_all("Potato").size()
print(count)

I hope this helps!