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occurrences helper

Tom Santiago
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The occurrences helper returns the number of times a specified substring appears in a string. Use it to count keyword matches, delimiters, or repeated patterns in text fields.

Syntax

{{occurrences str substring}}

str -- The input string to search. Required.

substring -- The substring to count. Required. Matching is case-sensitive: "Foo" and "foo" are counted separately.

Examples

Count word occurrences

{{occurrences record.text "foo"}}

Input:

{ "record": { "text": "foo bar foo bar baz" } }

Output: 2

Count delimiter occurrences

{{occurrences record.path "/"}}

Input:

{ "record": { "path": "/api/v1/resource/item" } }

Output: 4

Count character occurrences

{{occurrences record.name "a"}}

Input:

{ "record": { "name": "Banana" } }

Output: 3

"Banana" contains three lowercase "a" characters. The uppercase "B" is not counted.

Usage notes

  • Matching is case-sensitive: "Foo" and "foo" are treated as different substrings.
  • Overlapping matches are not counted separately.
  • Returns 0 if the substring is not found.