[Kaliber]

The fastest way to do this, is:

PHP Code:

stock static countStrings(const string[], const needle[])
{
    new c;
    for(new i=strfind(string,needle,true); i!=-1; i=strfind(string,needle,true,i+1)) c++;
    return c;
} 


Speed Results against your function:

Code:

Your time with 100.000x: 3818ms
My time with 100.000x: 1466ms

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