count occurences of string in array?

[bkennedy]

How do I count the occurences of a string within an array?
ex: I want to see how many of the elements exactly match the given string.

I've tried

substr_count

but that apparently only works for strings. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[reminder]

$string = array("1", "2", "3"); //and so on
$count = count($string);
for(reset($i); $i < $count; ++$i) {
echo $i; /echos number 3
} 

cheers

[bkennedy]

so, where do i tell it what i'm searching for?

$string = array("1", "2", "2", "3", "2"); 

I want this to return the number "3" when I search for the number "2"...
there are three occurences of "2"...
how do i do that?
thx for the help.

[bkennedy]

I think I got it...

$count = 0;
foreach ($array as $a)
{
    if ($a == $searchforthis)
    {
        $count++;
    }
}
echo $count; 

[reminder]

$searchFor = "2";
$string = array("1", "2", "2", "3", "2");
$str = str_count(in_array($searchFor, $string));
echo $str; 

in function..

function count_arr_str($searchFor, $string) {
$str = str_count(in_array($searchFor, $string));
return $str;
} 

cheers

[bkennedy]

thanks a ton