一个简短的例子是

String text = "a.b.c.d";
int count = text.split("\\.",-1).length-1;

这个怎么样。它没有在底层使用regexp，因此应该比其他一些解决方案更快，并且不会使用循环。

int count = line.length() - line.replace(".", "").length();

下面是一个没有循环的解决方案:

public static int countOccurrences(String haystack, char needle, int i){
    return ((i=haystack.indexOf(needle, i)) == -1)?0:1+countOccurrences(haystack, needle, i+1);}


System.out.println("num of dots is "+countOccurrences("a.b.c.d",'.',0));

嗯，有一个循环，但它是看不见的:-)

——约拿单

下面的源代码会给你答案。在用户输入的单词中出现给定字符串的次数:-

import java.util.Scanner;

public class CountingOccurences {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner inp= new Scanner(System.in);
        String str;
        char ch;
        int count=0;

        System.out.println("Enter the string:");
        str=inp.nextLine();

        while(str.length()>0)
        {
            ch=str.charAt(0);
            int i=0;

            while(str.charAt(i)==ch)
            {
                count =count+i;
                i++;
            }

            str.substring(count);
            System.out.println(ch);
            System.out.println(count);
        }

    }
}

这是一个稍微不同风格的递归解决方案:

public static int countOccurrences(String haystack, char needle)
{
    return countOccurrences(haystack, needle, 0);
}

private static int countOccurrences(String haystack, char needle, int accumulator)
{
    if (haystack.length() == 0) return accumulator;
    return countOccurrences(haystack.substring(1), needle, haystack.charAt(0) == needle ? accumulator + 1 : accumulator);
}

可以在一行代码中使用split()函数

int noOccurence=string.split("#",-1).length-1;