Count # of chars. in a string?

[Anon]

I want to count the number of a certian character (such as a pipe) in a string. For example:

$mystring = "me|you|otherguy"

$mystring_count = count($mystring,"|");

I know that's not right, but you get the idea...

thanks!

[Anon]

$array = explode ("|", $mystring);
$count = count ($array) - 1;

[reagent]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.count-chars.php

assuming you have php4