Answer to Question #193820 in Python for Coman

Question

Write a program that inputs several(three) lines of text and a search string, and determines the total occurrences of the string in the lines of text.

Answer 1

def countOccurences(s, word):
    a = s.split(" ")
    count1 = 0
    for i in range(0, len(a)):
        if (word == a[i]):
           count1 = count1 + 1
    return count1  


f = open('my_file.txt', 'r+')
serachWord=input("Enter a word to search: ")
count2=0;
for line in f.readlines():
    count2+=countOccurences(line,serachWord)
print (count2)
    
f.close()