Counting how many times a certain char appears in a string before any other char appears

Question

I have many strings. Each string is prepended with at least 1 $. What is the best way to loop through the chars of each string to count how many $\

Answer 1

One approach you could take is the following method:

// Counts how many of a certain character occurs in the given string
public static int CharCountInString(char chr, string str)
{
    return str.Split(chr).Length-1;
}

As per the parameters this method returns the count of a specific character within a specific string.

This method works by splitting the string into an array by the specified character and then returning the length of that array -1.