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Occurrence of a substring inside a list of strings

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• Subject: [mg51203] Occurrence of a substring inside a list of strings
• From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
• Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 02:54:53 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

I have a simple list of strings like lst={"abc", "abcd", 
"aabccaddbacdda", "adbacca",....}.  Let's say I have a fragment called 
frag="dba".  I would like to know how many strings in lst contain 
minimum once the fragment frag.

This is what I did:

Length[Flatten[Map[Part[StringPosition[#, frag], All, 1] &,lst] ] ]

Is there a better/faster way to calculate it ?

Thanks ahead,

János
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