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title: strings.countStr() function
description: >
  `strings.countStr()` counts the number of non-overlapping instances of a substring appears in a string.
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`strings.countStr()` counts the number of non-overlapping instances of a substring appears in a string.



##### Function type signature

```js
(substr: string, v: string) => int
```

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## Parameters

### v
({{< req >}})
String value to search.



### substr
({{< req >}})
Substring to count occurrences of.

The function counts only non-overlapping instances of `substr`.


## Examples

### Count instances of a substring within a string

```js
import "sampledata"
import "strings"

sampledata.string()
    |> map(fn: (r) => ({r with _value: strings.countStr(v: r._value, substr: "p")}))

```

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#### Input data

| _time                | *tag | _value      |
| -------------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | t1   | smpl_g9qczs |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | t1   | smpl_0mgv9n |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | t1   | smpl_phw664 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | t1   | smpl_guvzy4 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | t1   | smpl_5v3cce |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | t1   | smpl_s9fmgy |

| _time                | *tag | _value      |
| -------------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | t2   | smpl_b5eida |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | t2   | smpl_eu4oxp |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | t2   | smpl_5g7tz4 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | t2   | smpl_sox1ut |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | t2   | smpl_wfm757 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | t2   | smpl_dtn2bv |


#### Output data

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 1       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 1       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 2       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 1       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 1       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1       | t1   |

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 1       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 2       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 1       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 1       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 1       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1       | t2   |

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