======Spam Filter Rules: CountMatches======
^Statement  |CountMatches |
^Version  |2.3.13+ |
^Purpose  |Counts the number of times a specific regular expression matches in a string |

**CountMatches** statements require a data parameter a search value and the name of the variable to place the count into, in the format
  CountMatches <data> <search> <variable name>

  * The <data> paramater is defined in the documentation for [[spamrules_statement_ifmatch#data|IfMatch]]
  * The number of times the match occurs is returned into a variable with the name format **${''<variable name>''}**

=====Example=====
The following example will scan the body of the incoming message, for the regular expression '/ /' and return the number of matches into the ${numSpaces} variable
<code>
CountMatches body "/ /" numSpaces
</code>