find a word in sentence

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Hi i have a textbox and ill write one name in that and i want to know for example how many word like "a" in that name i want to count it
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Posted 8-Oct-14 20:15pm

Avenger1

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StM0n 9-Oct-14 2:30am

Do you want to count the number of certain words or letters? Have you tried regular expressions?

Avenger1 9-Oct-14 2:35am

i want to find a word in sentence like "a,i,o,u" and count how many these words in the sentence

Sinisa Hajnal 9-Oct-14 2:40am

And you cannot google this because...? What have you tried until now?

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Sanchayeeta · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-08T20:35:00

Solution 1

Do like this

C#

textBox1.Text = "abc";
int count = textBox1.Text.Count(f => f == 'a');

or

int count1 = Regex.Matches(textBox1.Text, "a").Count;

Posted 8-Oct-14 20:35pm

Sanchayeeta

Updated 8-Oct-14 20:42pm

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Maciej Los 9-Oct-14 2:44am

Nice!
+5!

Avenger1 9-Oct-14 2:49am

thanks and now i want to do it richtextbox and how can i do it in just one line, if you right in the next line it do it of zero for example
in line one we have 5 "a" and how can i find how many in line 2 not count all lines

Animesh Datta 9-Oct-14 2:58am

My 5!

Avenger1 9-Oct-14 3:00am

i want each line has count not all RichTextBox in one count