Question

Python

Write function stringCount() that takes two string inputs—a file name and a target string— and returns the number of occurrences of the target string in the file.

>>> stringCount('example.txt', 'line')

4

Answer 1

def stringCount(fname, target):
# reading file and taking words into a list
f = open(fname)
r = f.read().split()

# counting the occurrences of target string
count = 0
for one in r:
if one == target:
count += 1
  
f.close()

# returning the count
return count

print(stringCount('example.txt', 'line'))

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