Find all the occurrences of a character in a string

Question

I am trying to find all the occurences of \"|\" in a string.

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Answer 1

If text is the string that you want to count how many "|" it contains, the following line of code returns the count:

len(text.split("|"))-1

Note: This will also work for searching sub-strings.