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Programmer_55

I think that it would be helpful to add a counting method for lists & strings. For lists, it would return the number of times that the given string appears in the list.

(count instances of[]in[list v]::list)

For strings, it would count the number of times that the first string appears within the second string.

(count instances of[]in[]::operators)

(“instances” should probably be replaced with a word that more people know, I was just using it because I can't think of anything better right now.)

Example:

(count instances of[aba]in[abbababa]::operators)

=2

(count instances of[3]in[Sample List 1 v]::list)

when Sample List 1 contains {1, 2, 4, 3, 0, 3, 23, 42}=2

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BobzGames

Support, could be very useful. Might be a dupe

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LydzWinry

What would this be used for?

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Programmer_55

Counting the number of remaining enemies in a grid-based combat game to display in a counter using randomly generated levels.
Dynamic data display.
Many others that I can't think of off the top of my head.

There's a reason why it's included in practically every other programming language in exsistance.

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LydzWinry

Programmer_55 wrote:
Counting the number of remaining enemies in a grid-based combat game to display in a counter using randomly generated levels.
Dynamic data display.
Many others that I can't think of off the top of my head.
There's a reason why it's included in practically every other programming language in exsistance.

Ohhh. That makes sense. I'm not a programming expert so I didn't know that lol. Support!

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It looks like this is a duplicate topic of this one over here so I'll close it to keep the conversation all in one place.

Please use the existing topic in the link above.

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