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Ruby program to count a specified character inside the string

Ruby Example: Write a program to count a specified character inside the string.
Submitted by Nidhi, on January 08, 2022

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will create a string and then count the specified character inside the string using the count() method.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to count a specified character inside the string is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to count a specified character 
# inside the string

str = "aaabbcccddddd";

result = str.count('c');

print "Count: ", result;

Output:

Count: 3

Explanation:

In the above program, we created a string str initialized with "aaabbcccddddd". Then we count the specified character 'c' using the count() function and print the result.

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