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Ruby String Exercises: Count the occurrences of a specified character in a given string

Ruby String: Exercise-10 with Solution

Write a Ruby program to count the occurrences of a specified character in a given string.

Ruby String Exercises: Count the occurrences of a specified character in a given string

Ruby Code:

def check_string(my_string, chr)
   return my_string.count(chr) 
end
print check_string("JavaScript", "J")
print "\n",check_string("JavaScript", "a")
print "\n",check_string("JavaScript", "S")

Output:

1
2
1

Flowchart:

Flowchart: Count the occurrences of a specified character in a given string

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