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Ruby program to count a specified character inside the string
Last Updated : December 15, 2025
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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