Python: Count occurrences of a substring in a string

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Count substring occurrences in string.

Write a Python program to count occurrences of a substring in a string.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

# Define a string 'str1' with a sentence.
str1 = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'

# Print an empty line for spacing.
print()

# Count and print the number of occurrences of the substring "fox" in the string 'str1'.
print(str1.count("fox"))

# Print an empty line for spacing.
print() 

Sample Output:

1 

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• Write a Python program to count the frequency of a substring in a string recursively.

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