Question

How to count the occurrences of a word in a string using Scala

Answer 1

object WordCounter {
  def countOccurrences(str: String, word: String): Int = {
    str.split("\\W+").count(_ == word)
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val str = "Scala is a programming language. Scala is strong statically"
    val word = "Scala"
    
    println(s"The word '$word' occurs ${countOccurrences(str, word)} times")
  }
}



/*
run:

The word 'Scala' occurs 2 times
 
*/

 

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