---
title: strings.Count
description: Returns the number of non-overlapping instances of a substring within a string.
categories: [functions]
keywords: []
menu:
  docs:
    parent: functions
function:
  aliases: []
  returnType: int
  signatures: [strings.Count SUBSTR STRING]
relatedFunctions:
  - len
  - strings.Count
  - strings.CountRunes
  - strings.CountWords
  - strings.RuneCount
aliases: [/functions/strings.count]
---

If `SUBSTR` is an empty string, this function returns 1 plus the number of Unicode code points in `STRING`.

```go-html-template
{{ "aaabaab" | strings.Count "a" }} → 5
{{ "aaabaab" | strings.Count "aa" }} → 2
{{ "aaabaab" | strings.Count "aaa" }} → 1
{{ "aaabaab" | strings.Count "" }} → 8
```