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

Here is an alternative, case-insensitive, approach

sum(1 for w in s.lower().split() if w == 'Hello'.lower())
2

It matches by converting the string and target into lower-case.

ps: Takes care of the "am ham".count("am") == 2 problem with str.count() pointed out by @DSM below too :)