Solution for Rosetta Code: Count occurrences of a substring

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What is your hint or solution suggestion?
The best solution is to use the str.match(new Regexp(subStr...)) method, which will return a list of all the matches. Also, the symbol * needs to be replaced with \\* which indicates a transition point between regular and italic fonts.

Solution 1 
function countSubstring(main_str, sub_str){
    var subStr = sub_str.replace(/[*]/, '\\*');
    return (main_str.match(new RegExp(subStr, 'gi'))).length;
  }

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