Finding repeated words on a string and counting the repetitions

Question

I need to find repeated words on a string, and then count how many times they were repeated. So basically, if the input string is this:

String s = \"House, House         


        

Answer 1

Using Java 8 streams collectors:

public static Map countRepetitions(String str) {
    return Arrays.stream(str.split(", "))
        .collect(Collectors.toMap(s -> s, s -> 1, (a, b) -> a + 1));
}

Input: "House, House, House, Dog, Dog, Dog, Dog, Cat"

Output: {Cat=1, House=3, Dog=4}