Count number of strings within a string?

Question

How would you go about counting the number of strings within a string using Powershell?

For example:

$a = "blah test <= goes here / blah test <= goes here / blah blah"

I want to count how many times <= goes here / appears in the above.

Answer 1

I had a string with a bunch of pipes in it. I wanted to know how many there were, so I used this to get it. Just another way :)

$ExampleVar = "one|two|three|four|fivefive|six|seven";
$Occurrences = $ExampleVar.Split("|").GetUpperBound(0);
Write-Output "I've found $Occurrences pipe(s) in your string, sir!";

• Marcus