How to find how many times does a string object repeat in java?

Question

I have to String objects:

String first = \"/Some object that has a loop in it object/\";
String second = \"object\";

What I need to do is find

Answer 1

Use this single line which utilizes regular expressions in the background:

String[] parts = first.split(second);

String second occurs (parts.length - 1) times in String first. That's all.

EDIT:

To prevent unwanted results that could occur in the case of String second might contain regex-specific characters, you can use Pattern.quote(second) when passing it to split() method, as one of the commentators suggested.