Question

using python

1. 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')

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Answer 1

def stringCount(file_name, word):
  
f = open(file_name)
r = f.read().split()

c = 0
for one in r:
if one == word:
c += 1
  
f.close()

return c

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

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