Scalar FunctionsString Functions
countof
Counts occurrences of a substring in a string.
Syntax
countof(source, search, kind)Parameters
Prop
Type
Given a dynamic field
This parameter is string-only. In permissive mode — the default — almost every field arrives as a dynamic, so passing one works because Berserk injects asstring: extract-or-null, the value when it really is a string and null otherwise, so the call yields null (a predicate yields false). A property bag or array is therefore not matched, and tostring() is never applied implicitly — use it explicitly to match a bag's JSON text, keys included. Strict mode rejects the dynamic instead of coercing it. See String coercion and the asXXX family.
Returns: long
Examples
Example 1 — Count occurrences of a substring
print countof("Ragnar raided Lindisfarne and raided York", "raided")| print_0 (long) |
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| 2 |
Example 2 — Count matches using a regex pattern
print countof("Ragnar raided Lindisfarne in 793 and York in 866", "[0-9]+", "regex")| print_0 (long) |
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| 2 |