Example 1: javascript Count the occurrences of a value in an array
const countOccurrences = (arr, val) => arr.reduce((a, v) => (v === val ? a + 1 : a), 0);
// Examples
countOccurrences([2, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3], 2); // 2
countOccurrences(['a', 'b', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'b'], 'a'); // 3
Example 2: how to count occurences in an array with javascript
// This function counts instances of elements in an array
// the return object has the array elements as keys
// and number of occurrences as it's value
const arrToInstanceCountObj = arr => arr.reduce((obj, e) => {
obj[e] = (obj[e] || 0) + 1;
return obj;
}, {});
arrToInstanceCountObj(['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd'])
/*
{
h: 1,
e: 1,
l: 3,
o: 2,
w: 1,
r: 1,
d: 1,
}
*/
Example 3: count number of times an element is occuring in an array in javascript
Array.prototype.frequencies = function() {
var l = this.length, result = {all:[]};
while (l--){
result[this[l]] = result[this[l]] ? ++result[this[l]] : 1;
}
// all pairs (label, frequencies) to an array of arrays(2)
for (var l in result){
if (result.hasOwnProperty(l) && l !== 'all'){
result.all.push([ l,result[l] ]);
}
}
return result;
};
var freqs = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4].frequencies();
alert(freqs[2]); //=> 5
// or
var freqs = '1,1,2,one,one,2,2,22,three,four,five,three,three,five'
.split(',')
.frequencies();
alert(freqs.three); //=> 3