how to find and return the number of duplicates in an array in javascript code example
Example 1: count duplicates array js
uniqueCount = ["a","b","c","d","d","e","a","b","c","f","g","h","h","h","e","a"];
var count = {};
uniqueCount.forEach(function(i) { count[i] = (count[i]||0) + 1;});
console.log(count);
Example 2: 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);