JQuery Javascript Sort Array by Highest Count

Question

I have:

myArray = [\"ABAB\", \"ABAB\", \"ABAB\", \"CDCD\", \"EFEF\", \"EFEF\"]

I need to count by occurrences and sort by highest count. This w

Answer 1

see console in firefox to see the resulting object

http://jsfiddle.net/4dqeK/1/

myArray = ["ABAB", "ABAB", "ABAB", "CDCD", "EFEF", "EFEF"];

container={};

 for(var i=0; i < myArray.length;i++){
        var el=myArray[i];
        if( el in container){
            container[el].push(el);
        }
        else{
            container[el]=[];
            container[el].push(el);
        }


    }
    console.log(container);