Question

I have a table like this:

TITLE	DESCRIPTION
test1	value blah blah value
test2	value test
test3	test test test
test4	valuevaluevaluevaluevalue

I am trying to figure out how to return the number of times a string occurs in each of the DESCRIPTION’s.

So, if I want to count the number of times ‘value’ appears, the sql statement will return this:

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	COUNT
test1	value blah blah value	2
test2	value test	1
test3	test test test	0
test4	valuevaluevaluevaluevalue	5

Is there any way to do this? I do not want to use php at all, just mysql.

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

SELECT 
    title,
    description,    
    ROUND (   
        (
            LENGTH(description)
            - LENGTH( REPLACE ( description, "value", "") ) 
        ) / LENGTH("value")        
    ) AS count    
FROM <table>