How to count the number of occurrences of an element in a List

Question

I have an ArrayList, a Collection class of Java, as follows:

ArrayList animals = new ArrayList();
animals.add(\"bat\         


        

Answer 1

There is no native method in Java to do that for you. However, you can use IterableUtils#countMatches() from Apache Commons-Collections to do it for you.

Answer 2

So do it the old fashioned way and roll your own:

Map<String, Integer> instances = new HashMap<String, Integer>();

void add(String name) {
     Integer value = instances.get(name);
     if (value == null) {
        value = new Integer(0);
        instances.put(name, value);
     }
     instances.put(name, value++);
}

Answer 3

Java 8 - another method

String searched = "bat";
long n = IntStream.range(0, animals.size())
            .filter(i -> searched.equals(animals.get(i)))
            .count();

Answer 4

List<String> list = Arrays.asList("as", "asda", "asd", "urff", "dfkjds", "hfad", "asd", "qadasd", "as", "asda",
        "asd", "urff", "dfkjds", "hfad", "asd", "qadasd" + "as", "asda", "asd", "urff", "dfkjds", "hfad", "asd",
        "qadasd", "as", "asda", "asd", "urff", "dfkjds", "hfad", "asd", "qadasd");

Method 1:

Set<String> set = new LinkedHashSet<>();
set.addAll(list);

for (String s : set) {

    System.out.println(s + " : " + Collections.frequency(list, s));
}

Method 2:

int count = 1;
Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
Set<String> set1 = new LinkedHashSet<>();
for (String s : list) {
    if (!set1.add(s)) {
        count = map.get(s) + 1;
    }
    map.put(s, count);
    count = 1;

}
System.out.println(map);