Number of occurrences of substring in string in Swift

Question

My main string is \"hello Swift Swift and Swift\" and substring is Swift. I need to get the number of times the substring \"Swift\" occurs in the mentioned string.

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Answer 1

I needed a way to count substrings that may contain the start of the next matched substring. Leveraging dwsolbergs extension and Strings range(of:options:range:locale:) method I came up with this String extension

extension String
{
    /**
     Counts the occurrences of a given substring by calling Strings `range(of:options:range:locale:)` method multiple times.

     - Parameter substring : The string to search for, optional for convenience

     - Parameter allowOverlap : Bool flag indicating whether the matched substrings may overlap. Count of "