Count the number of occurrences of a character in a string in Javascript

Question

I need to count the number of occurrences of a character in a string.

For example, suppose my string contains:

var mainStr = \"str1,str2,str3,str4\";         


        

Answer 1

The fastest method seems to be via the index operator:

function charOccurances (str, char)
{
  for (var c = 0, i = 0, len = str.length; i < len; ++i)
  {
    if (str[i] == char)
    {
      ++c;
    }
  }
  return c;
}

console.log( charOccurances('example/path/script.js', '/') ); // 2

Or as a prototype function:

String.prototype.charOccurances = function (char)
{
  for (var c = 0, i = 0, len = this.length; i < len; ++i)
  {
    if (this[i] == char)
    {
      ++c;
    }
  }
  return c;
}

console.log( 'example/path/script.js'.charOccurances('/') ); // 2