Oliver Eyton-Williams ee1e8abd87
feat(curriculum): restore seed + solution to Chinese (#40683)
* feat(tools): add seed/solution restore script

* chore(curriculum): remove empty sections' markers

* chore(curriculum): add seed + solution to Chinese

* chore: remove old formatter

* fix: update getChallenges

parse translated challenges separately, without reference to the source

* chore(curriculum): add dashedName to English

* chore(curriculum): add dashedName to Chinese

* refactor: remove unused challenge property 'name'

* fix: relax dashedName requirement

* fix: stray tag

Remove stray `pre` tag from challenge file.

Signed-off-by: nhcarrigan <nhcarrigan@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: nhcarrigan <nhcarrigan@gmail.com>
2021-01-12 19:31:00 -07:00

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---
id: 596fda99c69f779975a1b67d
title: Count occurrences of a substring
challengeType: 5
forumTopicId: 302237
dashedName: count-occurrences-of-a-substring
---
# --description--
Create a function, or show a built-in function, to count the number of non-overlapping occurrences of a substring inside a string.
The function should take two arguments:
<ul>
<li>the first argument being the string to search, and</li>
<li>the second a substring to be searched for.</li>
</ul>
It should return an integer count.
The matching should yield the highest number of non-overlapping matches.
In general, this essentially means matching from left-to-right or right-to-left.
# --hints--
`countSubstring` should be a function.
```js
assert(typeof countSubstring === 'function');
```
`countSubstring("the three truths", "th")` should return `3`.
```js
assert.equal(countSubstring(testCases[0], searchString[0]), results[0]);
```
`countSubstring("ababababab", "abab")` should return `2`.
```js
assert.equal(countSubstring(testCases[1], searchString[1]), results[1]);
```
`countSubstring("abaabba*bbaba*bbab", "a*b")` should return `2`.
```js
assert.equal(countSubstring(testCases[2], searchString[2]), results[2]);
```
# --seed--
## --after-user-code--
```js
const testCases = ['the three truths', 'ababababab', 'abaabba*bbaba*bbab'];
const searchString = ['th', 'abab', 'a*b'];
const results = [3, 2, 2];
```
## --seed-contents--
```js
function countSubstring(str, subStr) {
return true;
}
```
# --solutions--
```js
function countSubstring(str, subStr) {
const escapedSubStr = subStr.replace(/[.+*?^$[\]{}()|/]/g, '\\$&');
const matches = str.match(new RegExp(escapedSubStr, 'g'));
return matches ? matches.length : 0;
}
```