Count Occurrences of a Character in a String

Task

Implement the function count_occurrences

• Takes a char* str and a char to_count
• Return the number of times to_count appears in str
• Should return an int with the count

Function Signature

// Returns the number of times the to_count character appears in str
int count_occurrences(const char* str, char to_count);

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Example

$ ./count_occurrences
hello l
2
banana a
3
test t
2
test x
0
"   "  
3
"" a
0
a a
1
a b
0

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Code

int count_occurrences(const char* str, char to_count) {
    int count = 0;
    for(int i = 0; str[i] != 0; i++){
        count += (str[i] == to_count) ? 1 : 0;
    }
    return count;
}