Character occurrences in a String Objective C

Question

How can I count the occurrence of a character in a string?

Example

String: 123-456-7890

I want to find the occurrence count of \"-\

Answer 1

You can simply do it like this:

NSString *string = @"123-456-7890";
int times = [[string componentsSeparatedByString:@"-"] count]-1;

NSLog(@"Counted times: %i", times);

Output:

Counted times: 2