Counting Dot Char

[harris97]

Well i'd like to count how many dots are there in a sentence. example
$text="my name is joko. my mom is siti. and my father is jack."
Dots (.) in that sentence ($text) are 3. But how to count that in PHP?

thanks for anybody helping me

[Anon]

<?

$string = "The quick. Brown. Fox jumped. Over the yellow. Cat.";

$results = explode(".",$string);
echo count($results)-1;

?>

using the explode to cut up the string into seperate 'sentances' this also could set you up for better string manipulation down the road.

-Jon