match functionality

["Leeds, Mark" <mleeds@mlp.com>]

i have a character string and i am trying

to find out how many times that

character string shows

up in another vector of character strings.

 

unfortunately, match doesn't

do what i want because if i do

 

stringindex_pmatch(instring,instringector)

 

stringindex only returns the first occurrence.

 

is there some other function that does

what i need ? i can't find one.

i guess i could write

something but my guess is

that it exists already.

 

 

                                    thanks