Merge pull request #6096 from cvium/saving_private_ram

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
index 1853896ee..291485e75 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
@@ -22,6 +22,27 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Extensions
             return Normalize(string.Concat(chars), NormalizationForm.FormC);
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Counts the number of occurrences of [needle] in the string.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="value">The haystack to search in.</param>
+        /// <param name="needle">The character to search for.</param>
+        /// <returns>The number of occurrences of the [needle] character.</returns>
+        public static int CountOccurrences(this ReadOnlySpan<char> value, char needle)
+        {
+            var count = 0;
+            var length = value.Length;
+            for (var i = 0; i < length; i++)
+            {
+                if (value[i] == needle)
+                {
+                    count++;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return count;
+        }
+
         private static string Normalize(string text, NormalizationForm form, bool stripStringOnFailure = true)
         {
             if (stripStringOnFailure)