String count with overlapping occurrences
Solution 1
Well, this might be faster since it does the comparing in C:
def occurrences(string, sub):
count = start = 0
while True:
start = string.find(sub, start) + 1
if start > 0:
count+=1
else:
return count
Solution 2
>>> import re
>>> text = '1011101111'
>>> len(re.findall('(?=11)', text))
5
If you didn't want to load the whole list of matches into memory, which would never be a problem! you could do this if you really wanted:
>>> sum(1 for _ in re.finditer('(?=11)', text))
5
As a function (re.escape
makes sure the substring doesn't interfere with the regex):
>>> def occurrences(text, sub):
return len(re.findall('(?={0})'.format(re.escape(sub)), text))
>>> occurrences(text, '11')
5
Solution 3
You can also try using the new Python regex module, which supports overlapping matches.
import regex as re
def count_overlapping(text, search_for):
return len(re.findall(search_for, text, overlapped=True))
count_overlapping('1011101111','11') # 5
Solution 4
Python's str.count
counts non-overlapping substrings:
In [3]: "ababa".count("aba")
Out[3]: 1
Here are a few ways to count overlapping sequences, I'm sure there are many more :)
Look-ahead regular expressions
How to find overlapping matches with a regexp?
In [10]: re.findall("a(?=ba)", "ababa")
Out[10]: ['a', 'a']
Generate all substrings
In [11]: data = "ababa"
In [17]: sum(1 for i in range(len(data)) if data.startswith("aba", i))
Out[17]: 2
Solution 5
def count_substring(string, sub_string):
count = 0
for pos in range(len(string)):
if string[pos:].startswith(sub_string):
count += 1
return count
This could be the easiest way.
calccrypto
Updated on July 08, 2022Comments
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calccrypto almost 2 years
What's the best way to count the number of occurrences of a given string, including overlap in Python? This is one way:
def function(string, str_to_search_for): count = 0 for x in xrange(len(string) - len(str_to_search_for) + 1): if string[x:x+len(str_to_search_for)] == str_to_search_for: count += 1 return count function('1011101111','11')
This method returns 5.
Is there a better way in Python?