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Originally Posted by rahul

Thanks for reply,

Can i get location of each occurrences of searched word from text
I can get searched word location but it gives me location of first occurrence of searched word within text. I want locations of all occurrences of searched word.

I wrote this C style (I guess) instr cause I like "instr" and didn't want to do this twice. returns the location of searchFor in searchIn, returns -1 when not found. You can use startingAt to iterate over the string and count the number of times one string occurs in another.

int instr(NSString *searchFor, NSString *searchIn, int startingAt){
	NSRange searchRange;
	int retVal;
	
	searchRange.location = startingAt;
	searchRange.length = [searchIn length] - startingAt;
	
	NSRange foundRange = [searchIn rangeOfString:searchFor options:0  range:searchRange];
	if(foundRange.length > 0){
		retVal = foundRange.location;
	}else{
		retVal = -1;
	}
	
	return retVal;
}