Count the number of occurrences of a character in a string in Javascript

Question

I need to count the number of occurrences of a character in a string.

For example, suppose my string contains:

var mainStr = \"str1,str2,str3,str4\";         


        

Answer 1

The function takes string str as parameter and counts occurrence of each unique characters in the string. The result comes in key - value pair for each character.

var charFoundMap = {};//object defined
    for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {

       if(!charFoundMap[ str[i] ])  {
        charFoundMap[ str[i] ]=1;
       } 
       else
       charFoundMap[ str[i] ] +=1;
       //if object does not contain this 
    }
    return charFoundMap;

}