How to find the count of a word in a string?

Question

I have a string \"Hello I am going to I with hello am\". I want to find how many times a word occur in the string. Example hello occurs 2 time. I tried this app

Answer 1

If you want to find the count of an individual word, just use count:

input_string.count("Hello")

Use collections.Counter and split() to tally up all the words:

from collections import Counter

words = input_string.split()
wordCount = Counter(words)