finding to total of duplicates in an array javascript code example
Example 1: javascript get duplicates in array
function getDuplicateArrayElements(arr){
var sorted_arr = arr.slice().sort();
var results = [];
for (var i = 0; i < sorted_arr.length - 1; i++) {
if (sorted_arr[i + 1] === sorted_arr[i]) {
results.push(sorted_arr[i]);
}
}
return results;
}
var colors = ["red","orange","blue","green","red","blue"];
var duplicateColors= getDuplicateArrayElements(colors);//["blue", "red"]
Example 2: counting duplicate values javascript
var counts = {};
your_array.forEach(function(x) { counts[x] = (counts[x] || 0)+1; });