Find how many of a certain character is repeated in a string?

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- SparkleNaut
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I have a string of text: "Today I went to the park_and I saw_a bird"

How would I count how many time an underscore "_" is in the string?

At the moment this is what I have

It does show me how many there are but there's a delay since it takes a while for it to scan through the string. Is there a quicker way to do this? Thank you!
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- mikehive
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Well, you could do: tokencount(String,"_")-1
- dop2000
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SparkleNaut Looking at your screenshot - that is a very wrong way to do loops in Construct! If you want to compare each letter one by one, do something like this:
System Repeat len(s) times System compare two values mid(s, loopindex, 1)="_" -> Add 1 to counter

Note, line #2 is a sub-event under #1.

This whole loop will be done in one tick.