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countx ( haystack_string_expression , regular_expression )

returns integer_expression

Return the count of the regular expression regex in the string haystack.

print countx("Hello", "[hH]")
print countx("Buffalo buffalo buffalo.","[Bb]uffalo")

will display

1
3

By default the nature of regular expressions is “greedy”. This behaviour can be changed using the RegexMinimal statement.