Counting the number of backslashes in a string

First method

var text = "hardware\\printers\\Epson";
var paths = text.split("\\");
alert(paths.length -1);

second method

var text = "hardware\\printers\\Epson";
var numBs = 0;
var index = 0;

while(index != -1) {
 index = text.indexOf("\\", index);

 if (index != -1) {
  numBs++;
  index++;
 }
}

alert(numBs);