Number of occurrences of \n in a string - PHP
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a nice easy one for ya!
substr_count(string, search for)
eg
substr_count("/n", "hi my name is/n bob and i like/n chocolate/n");
the above would return 3
substr_count(string, search for)
eg
substr_count("/n", "hi my name is/n bob and i like/n chocolate/n");
the above would return 3
Soldato
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A more robust way of doing it would be to normalize the line breaks first; this would account for the differences between line break characters used by various platforms.
PHP:
$normalizedString = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $string); // Convert CRLF (Windows) to LF.
$normalizedString = str_replace("\r", "\n", $string); // Convert CR (Mac) to LF.
$count = substr_count("\n", $normalizedString);