[ruby-core:111366] [Ruby master Feature#13890] Allow a regexp as an argument to 'count', to count more interesting things than single characters

Issue #13890 has been updated by shan (Shannon Skipper).





I'd love to have this feature. A `str.count(regexp)` is something I see fol=
k trying fairly often. A `str.count(regexp)` also avoids the intermediary A=
rray of `str.scan(regexp).size` or the back bending with `str.enum_for(:sca=
n, regexp).count`.



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Feature #13890: Allow a regexp as an argument to 'count', to count more int=
eresting things than single characters

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13890#change-100741



* Author: duerst (Martin D=FCrst)

* Status: Open

* Priority: Normal

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Currently, String#count only accepts strings, and counts all the characters=
 in the string.



However, I have repeatedly met the situation where I wanted to count more i=
nteresting things in strings.

These 'interesting things' can easily be expressed with regular expressions.



Here is a quick-and-dirty Ruby-level implementation:



````Ruby

class String

  alias old_count count



  def count (what)

    case what

    when String

      old_count what

    when Regexp

      pos =3D -1

      count =3D 0

      count +=3D 1 while pos =3D index(what, pos+1)

      count

    end

  end

end

````



Please note that the implementation counts overlapping occurrences; maybe t=
here is room for an option like `overlap: :no`.







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