Finding # occurrences of a character in a string in Ruby

Question

I\'m looking for the Ruby method (1.9...) that can help me find the number of occurrences of a character in a string. I\'m looking for all occurrences, not just the first one.

Answer 1

If you just want the number of a's:

puts "Melanie is a noob".count('a')  #=> 2

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