How to get a count of strings in a file

[Cleptography]

I have a text file the file looks like this.

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Hello world this is the first string
Hello world this is the second string
Hello world this is the third string
World this is not enough strings

I want to get a count on how many times the sub string World
occurs in the file.
The output should look like
World=4

Thank You

[ghostmachine4]

I have a text file the file looks like this.

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Hello world this is the first string
Hello world this is the second string
Hello world this is the third string
World this is not enough strings

I want to get a count on how many times the sub string World
occurs in the file.
The output should look like
World=4

Thank You

download gawk for windows and use this one liner

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C:\test>gawk "BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1}{m+=gsub(/world/,\"\")}END{print m}" file
4

[Cleptography]

Thank you ghost I am familiar with gawk, but this needs to be done using DOS only.

[ghostmachine4]

Thank you ghost I am familiar with gawk, but this needs to be done using DOS only.

you mean you cannot download gawk , right? Well, in that case, use vbscript (or powershell) unless you are saying you are working with DOS 6.22 !

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Set objFS = CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )
strFile = WScript.Arguments(0)
Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile)
total = 0
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfLine
   strLine = objFile.ReadLine
      s = Split(strLine," ")
      For i=LBound(s) To UBound(s)
         If InStr( LCase( s(i)) , "world" ) > 0 Then
            total = total + 1   
         End If
      Next
Loop
objFile.Close
WScript.Echo "total: " & total

output

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C:\test>cscript //nologo test.vbs file
total: 4

[Cleptography]

Well Ghost thank you for your help I think...
...but this does what I need it to.

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@echo off&&setlocal

set str2find=world
set file=%~1
set token=0

for /f "tokens=*" %%- in (%file%) do (
   set str=%%-&&call :NEXT
)
goto :COUNT

:NEXT
for /f "tokens=1,*" %%a in ("%str%") do (
   set str=%%b
   set strfind=%%a
)
if /i "%strfind%"=="%str2find%" set /a token=%token%+1
if "%str%"=="" goto :eof
goto :NEXT

:COUNT
echo.%str2find% was found %token% times.