Count number of occurrences for each char in a string

Question

I want to count the number of occurrences of each character in a given string using JavaScript.

For example:

var str = \"I want to count the number         


        

Answer 1

    function cauta() {

        var str = document.form.stringul.value;
        str = str.toLowerCase();
        var tablou = [];

        k = 0;
        //cautarea caracterelor unice
        for (var i = 0, n = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
            for (var j = 0; j < tablou.length; j++) {
                if (tablou[j] == str[i]) k = 1;
            }
            if (k != 1) {
                if (str[i] != ' ')
                    tablou[n] = str[i]; n++;
            }
            k = 0;
        }
        //numararea aparitilor
        count = 0;
        for (var i = 0; i < tablou.length; i++) {
            if(tablou[i]!=null){
            char = tablou[i];
            pos = str.indexOf(char);
            while (pos > -1) {
                ++count;
                pos = str.indexOf(char, ++pos);

            }

            document.getElementById("rezultat").innerHTML += tablou[i] + ":" + count + '\n';
            count = 0;
        }
        }

    }

This function will put each unique char in array, and after will find the appearances of each char in str. In my Case, i get and put data into

Answer 2

This is really, really simple in JavaScript (or any other language that supports maps):

// The string
var str = "I want to count the number of occurances of each char in this string";

// A map (in JavaScript, an object) for the character=>count mappings
var counts = {};

// Misc vars
var ch, index, len, count;

// Loop through the string...
for (index = 0, len = str.length; index < len; ++index) {
    // Get this character
    ch = str.charAt(index); // Not all engines support [] on strings

    // Get the count for it, if we have one; we'll get `undefined` if we
    // don't know this character yet
    count = counts[ch];

    // If we have one, store that count plus one; if not, store one
    // We can rely on `count` being falsey if we haven't seen it before,
    // because we never store falsey numbers in the `counts` object.
    counts[ch] = count ? count + 1 : 1;
}

Now counts has properties for each character; the value of each property is the count. You can output those like this:

for (ch in counts) {
    console.log(ch + " count: " + counts[ch]);
}

Answer 3

I have used Map object , The map object doesn't let you set any duplicate key and that makes our job easy . I am checking if the key already exists in map , if not I am inserting and setting the count to 1 , if it already exists I am getting the value and then incrementing

const str = "Hello H"
    const strTrim = str.replace(/\s/g,'') // HelloH
    const strArr=strTrim.split('')

    let myMap = new Map(); // Map object 

    strArr.map(ele=>{
    let count =0
    if(!myMap.get(ele)){
    myMap.set(ele,++count)
    }else {
    let cnt=myMap.get(ele)
    myMap.set(ele,++cnt)
    }
    console.log("map",myMap)
    })

Answer 4

let str = "atul kumar srivastava";
let obj ={};
for(let s of str)if(!obj[s])obj[s] = 1;else obj[s] = obj[s]  + 1;
console.log(obj)

Answer 5

Shorter answer, with reduce:

let s = 'hello';
var result = [...s].reduce((a, e) => { a[e] = a[e] ? a[e] + 1 : 1; return a }, {}); 
console.log(result); // {h: 1, e: 1, l: 2, o: 1}