Number of occurences for a string pattern

[makas12]

Is there a function to count number of occurrences of a string pattern in string list? Before writing a function, I want to know if there is out-of-the-box functionality to compute number of occurrences of a string pattern in a string list? Thanks,

[EViews Gareth]

No.

[mamo]

Hi,
here is a (case-sensitive) workaround in one line.
Let %s1 denote the shorter string occuring zero or more times in the longer string %s2. The code

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(@strlen(%s2)-@strlen(@replace(%s2,%s1,"")))/@strlen(%s1)

Best, mamo