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    /**

     * Returns the number of occurrences of a chain of characters in an String

     * 

     * @param str The string where find into

     * @param subStr The chain of characteres that we want to know how many times occurs

     * @param caseSensitive 'true' if has to do case sensitive for each seek or 'false' if not

     * 

     * @return An integer value >= 0

     * 

     * @author Pablo Piqueras Bartolom? (p_queras@hotmail.com)

     */

    public static int numberOfOccurrencesOfSubStringInString(String str, String subStr, boolean caseSensitive) {

    	int aux = 0;

    	int numberOfOccurrences = 0;

    	if (!caseSensitive) {

    		str = str.toLowerCase();

    		subStr = subStr.toLowerCase();

    	}

    	while (((aux = str.indexOf(subStr, aux)) != -1)) {

    		aux = aux + subStr.length();

    		numberOfOccurrences++;

    	}

    	return numberOfOccurrences;

    }