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I am facing an issue where I get results from API(mainly array of numbers), but if the devs make mistake and leave the field empty I will get empty string ("").
I am trying to sort this array in an ascending order and move the empty strings in the back of the Array, like that:
let arr = [3, 4, "", 1, 5, 2] // Example Array from api
This array, when modified should become:
let res = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ""]
I tried using the arr.sort() method, but the results look like that:
let res = ["",1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5]
For some reason when the element is string, the sort method puts it in the front, not in the end like it does with undefined or null for example.
Method 1
let arr = [3, 4, "", 1, 5, 2];
const res = arr.sort((a, b) => {
if (typeof a === 'string') {
return 1;
} else if (typeof b === 'string') {
return -1;
} else {
return a - b;
}
}
);
console.log(res)
Output:
[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, '' ]
Method 2
const res = (arr) => {
let newArr = [];
let strArr = [];
for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
if (typeof arr[i] === 'string') {
strArr.push(arr[i]);
} else {
newArr.push(arr[i]);
}
}
return newArr.concat(strArr);
}
console.log(res(arr));
I want to sort an array by element frequency. My code works for arrays of strings, but not for arrays of numbers:
const countOccurrences = (arr, val) => arr.reduce((a, v) => (v === val ? a + 1 : a), 0);
function frequencySort(arr){
let d = {}
arr.forEach(i => d[i] = countOccurrences(arr,i))
arr.sort(function(a,b){
return d[b] - d[a]
})
return arr
}
frequencySort(['a','b','b','b','c','c'])) returns [ 'b', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'a' ]
frequencySort([4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4]) returns [ 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 2, 2, 6 ]
The only reason your letters worked is because you didn't have the same number of any two letters, where in your numbers, you have 2 of both 2 and 6.
Here's your snippet, but with 2 a's and 2 c's. You'll see it's out of order just like the numbers.
const countOccurrences = (arr, val) => arr.reduce((a, v) => (v === val ? a + 1 : a), 0);
function frequencySort(arr){
let d = {}
arr.forEach(i => d[i] = countOccurrences(arr,i))
arr.sort(function(a,b){
return d[b] - d[a]
})
return arr
}
console.log(frequencySort(['a','b','b','b','c','c', 'a']))
You need a way to sort instances that have the same number of occurrences. I adapted your forEach loop to give the last index of each letter to your b object and then changed your sort to use that index in case the number of occurrences is the same.
const countOccurrences = (arr, val) => arr.reduce((a, v) => (v === val ? a + 1 : a), 0);
function frequencySort(arr){
let d = {}
arr.forEach((i,index) => d[i] = {
num: countOccurrences(arr,i),
i: index
});
arr.sort(function(a,b){
let diff = d[b].num - d[a].num;
if(diff == 0)
diff = d[b].i - d[a].i;
return diff;
})
return arr
}
console.log(frequencySort(['a','b','b','b','c','c', 'a']))
console.log(frequencySort([4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4]));
It has nothing to do with the elements being letters or numbers. In you letters array, each letter has unique occurence count (3, 2, 1), therefore they are sorted the way you want to.
However, in your numbers array, "2" and "6" both occur 2 times each. Therefore, your sort callback function returns 0 for them, and they are treated as equal order by the sort function.
In your array of numbers you have the same amount of the number 2 as 6 and your sorting function doesn't care about the actual values it just cares about their counts. So in your example 2 and 6 both have the same priority.
You want to adjust your sorting function to compare values of elements if they have the same amount of occurrences.
You'll need to implement separate comparisons for all the data types you want to accept and decide if you want ascending/descending order.
Here is a basic example for number and string elements:
const countOccurrences = (arr, val) => arr.reduce((a, v) => (v === val ? a + 1 : a), 0);
function frequencySort(arr){
let d = {}
arr.forEach(i => d[i] = countOccurrences(arr,i))
arr.sort(function(a,b){
const r = d[b] - d[a]
if (r != 0) return r
switch (typeof d[a]) {
case 'number': return a - b
case 'string': return a.localeCompare(b)
default: return 0
}
})
return arr
}
console.log(frequencySort(['a','b','b','b','c','c'])) // returns [ 'b', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'a' ]
console.log(frequencySort([4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4])) // returns [ 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 6, 6 ]
A possible approach would first collect all equal array items within an item specific group array by a reduce task ...
console.log(
"grouped ['a','b','b','b','c','c'] ...",
['a','b','b','b','c','c'].reduce((index, item) => {
const groupList =
index[`${ (typeof item) }_${ item }`] ??= [];
groupList.push(item);
return index;
}, {})
);
console.log(
"grouped [4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4,'4','2','2'] ...",
[4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4,'4','2','2'].reduce((index, item) => {
const groupList =
index[`${ (typeof item) }_${ item }`] ??= [];
groupList.push(item);
return index;
}, {})
);
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The final computation then has to transform ... via Object.values ... the temporary result (as shown above) into an array of arrays of equal items where the former gets 1stly sorted by each array's length (indicates the items frequency) and 2ndly, for arrays of equal length', by a locale compare of each array's first item. The final result is the sorted array's flatted version ...
function sortItemsByFrequency(arr) {
const groupedItems = arr.reduce((index, item) => {
const groupList =
index[`${ (typeof item) }_${ item }`] ??= [];
groupList.push(item);
return index;
}, {});
return Object
.values(groupedItems)
.sort((a, b) =>
// - sort by frequency first indicated by an
// array's length.
// - the higher frequency count wins.
b.length - a.length ||
// in case of equal frequency counts do a
// locale compare of both array's first items.
b[0].toLocaleString().localeCompare(a[0].toLocaleString())
)
.flat();
}
console.log(
"sortItemsByFrequency(['a','b','b','b','c','c']) ...",
sortItemsByFrequency(['a','b','b','b','c','c'])
);
console.log(
"sortItemsByFrequency([4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4,'4','2','2']) ...",
sortItemsByFrequency([4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4,'4','2','2'])
);
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sort first based on frequency of characters in desc order,if freq is same, then sort alphabetically in asc order.
const str = 'zzzzvnttteeeqqaao';
const frequencySort = (str = '') => {
let map = {}
for (const letter of str) {
map[letter] = (map[letter] || 0) + 1;
};
let res = "";
let sorted = Object.keys(map).sort((a, b) => map[b] < map[a] ? -1 : 1);
//console.log(sorted);
for (let letter of sorted) {
for (let count = 0; count < map[letter]; count++) {
res += letter
}
}
return res;
};
console.log(frequencySort(str));
I need to take this array [1,2,4,591,392,391,2,5,10,2,1,1,1,20,20] and return a new array which sorts all the duplicate numbers into their own nested array.
it should return [[1,1,1,1],[2,2,2], 4,5,10,[20,20], 391, 392,591].
I have messed around with for loops as well as the .map() method and can't seem to land on the solution. At this point I am almost just taking shots in the dark hoping something will work out. I am very new at javascript.
const cleaner = array1.map((num, index, array) => {
if (array1.indexOf(num) >= index) {
return num;
} else {
return array;
}
});
You can use a Set to collect the unique values then use Array.prototype.map() and Array.prototype.filter() to create the subarrays for each value.
const array = [1,2,4,591,392,391,2,5,10,2,1,1,1,20,20];
// defines a function that...
const arrange = array =>
// creates array of unique values
Array.from(new Set(array))
// sorts unique values in ascending order
.sort((a, b) => a - b)
// creates a subarray for each unique value
.map(key => array.filter(value => key === value))
// unwraps unit length subarrays
.map(subarray => subarray.length === 1 ? subarray[0] : subarray);
const cleaner = arrange(array);
console.log(JSON.stringify(cleaner));
This is not the most efficient approach, but it is considerably more readable (in my opinion) than procedural approaches using the reduce() method, and for an array of this length, the difference in execution time will be negligible.
You can do this using reduce, see the comments in the snippet :
const arr = [1, 2, 4, 591, 392, 391, 2, 5, 10, 2, 1, 1, 1, 20, 20];
const result = arr.reduce((acc, curr) => {
// check if the element exists in the accumulator
const ndx = acc.findIndex(e => (Array.isArray(e) ? e.includes(curr) : e === curr));
if (ndx === -1) {
// if it doesn't exist, push it
acc.push(curr);
} else {
// if it exists, check if it's an array
if (Array.isArray(acc[ndx])) acc[ndx].push(curr); // if it is, push the current element
else acc[ndx] = [acc[ndx], curr]; // convert the current element in accumulator to an array with the previous and the new elements
}
return acc;
}, []);
console.log(result);
In order to do that, you need to perform a few operations:
Count occurrence of each number.
Sort non-repeating numbers.
Map it to have either number (non-repeating), or array of repeated numbers.
const array = [1, 2, 4, 591, 392, 391, 2, 5, 10, 2, 1, 1, 1, 20, 20];
Step 1
Let’s count items. For that, I would create an object that will keep a track of each.
const counted = array.reduce(
(acc, current) => Object.assign(acc, { [current]: acc[current] ? acc[current] += 1 : 1 }),
{}
);
Using reduce we create an object, which will look like that:
{
'1': 5,
'2': 3,
'4': 1,
'5': 1,
// etc.
}
Step 2
Let's sort elements:
const sorted = Object.keys(counted)
.map(Number) // <-- we have to remember that object keys are strings
.sort((a, b) => a - b);
Step 3
Now that we have prepared object with counts and have them sorted, let’s put it together. If number in counted is 1 then we’ll insert value directly, otherwise we’ll transform it into array of values.
const final = sorted.map(
(number) => counted[number] == 1
? number
: Array.from({ length: counted[number] }, () => number)
);
You could take an object and use the implicit sorting.
var array = [1, 2, 4, 591, 392, 391, 2, 5, 10, 2, 1, 1, 1, 20, 20],
result = Object.values(array.reduce((r, v) => {
if (v in r) r[v] = [].concat(r[v], v);
else r[v] = v;
return r;
}, {}));
console.log(result);
I have big array, I want to make an autocomplete search, but I want to display only 10 results, so stop iterating through the array by the time there were found 10 results. I have made this:
let items = array.filter(r => r.indexOf(term)!=-1);
console.log(items.length) // lots of items, need to be limited to 10
It works but I don't know how to stop the array.filter by the time it reaches the desired limit.
You could use another variable to keep track of how many items matched the condition so far and always return false after the limit has been reached. Here is an example:
const arr = [1,0,2,0,3,0,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14];
const filtered = arr.filter(function(item) {
if (this.count < 10 && item > 0) {
this.count++;
return true;
}
return false;
}, {count: 0});
console.log(filtered);
Here, I'm using an object {count: 0} as the context of the callback function. You can find out more about Array.filter from here
Basically you can use a generator function, which can be stopped by a self made limit, like in the below function
function *filter(array, condition, maxSize) {
if (!maxSize || maxSize > array.length) {
maxSize = array.length;
}
let count = 0;
let i = 0;
while ( count< maxSize && i < array.length ) {
if (condition(array[i])) {
yield array[i];
count++;
}
i++;
}
}
const array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
console.log( Array.from( filter(array, i => i % 2 === 0, 2 ) ) ); // expect 2 & 4
So it will stop after it reaches maxSize as a parameter, and to easily return it into an array, you can use Array.from, which will iterate the iterator of the generator function
You could hand over a counter and omit any other values for filtering.
const
filter = v => v % 2,
filterMax = (fn, c) => x => c && fn(x) && c--,
max = 3,
array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10],
result = array.filter(filterMax(filter, max));
console.log(result);
Taking the idea of Icepickle's answer a bit ahead with a loop for finding the next valid item and yield this one.
function* filterMax(array, cb, count) {
var i = 0;
while (count) {
while (i < array.length && !cb(array[i])) i++;
if (i >= array.length) return;
yield array[i++];
count--;
}
}
const
filter = v => v % 2,
max = 3,
array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
console.log(...filterMax(array, filter, max));
You can't break from Array.prototype.filter method. It will loop over every element. You can use a simple for loop and break when 10 items are found
const items = []
for (const value of array) {
if (value.includes(term))
items.push(value)
if (items.length === 10)
break;
}
Just for the trick :
EDIT : To clarify this code will pick the 10 first even number of the list
let array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30];
const result = array.reduce((temp, value) => {
if(value%2==0 && temp.length<10)
temp.push(value);
return temp;
}, []);
console.log(result);
var data = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14"]
var limited = data.filter((val,i)=>i<10)
console.log(limited)
You can do this just simple add .Slice(0,NO_OF_ELE_WANT)
eg. finding first two even no
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10].filter((e)=> e%2==0).slice(0,2)
Answer : let items = array.filter(r => r.indexOf(term)!=-1).slice(0,10);
I wrote a library that's handy for this sort of thing.
Here's how I'd find the first 100 numbers that start with the character "1"
const {blinq, range} = window.blinq;
//create a large array of strings to search
const arrToBeSearched = range(0,10000)
.select(x => `${x}`)
.toArray()
const query = blinq(arrToBeSearched)
.where(x => x.startsWith("1"))
.takeWhile((x, i) => i < 100)
const result = [...query] //no calculation until we materialize on this line
console.log(result)
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/blinq"></script>
I know its a bit late, but here's for the new comers!
// we'll create a function which will take two arguments
// first argument would be your original array which your want to filter from
// second argument would be the number of results you want the filter to return
const limitedArray = (originalArray, limit) => {
let newArray = [];
for (let item of originalArray) {
if (newArray.length >= limit) break;
//your code here
//in my case i'll jush push in to the array
newArray.push(item)
}
return newArray;
};
//---------------->ignore v<-------------------
//the above function would return an array so in other words we can see this function as an array
const array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 'cascas', 'ascasc', 9, 10, 'ascs'];
console.log(limitedArray(array, 4));
//similarly
limitedArray(array, 4).forEach(item => {
console.log(item)
})
You can define your custom method on Array.prototype which will take 2 arguments. A callback and a max elements that result array will contain.
The code below gets the first 3 odd numbers from array.
function filterUpto(callback,max){
let len = this.length
let res = [];
let i = 0;
while(res.length < max && i < len){
if(callback(this[i],i,this)) res.push(arr[i])
i++
}
return res;
}
Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype,'filterUpto',{
value:filterUpto
})
let arr = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];
console.log(arr.filterUpto(x => x % 2,3)); //first three odd numbers
Here is another possible solution, pretty straightforward, using Array.from:
const arr = [
"foo",
"bar",
"foobar",
"baz",
"foobaz",
"artefact",
"mortar",
"bar",
"arity",
"mark",
"car",
"dare",
"arbitrary",
"tar",
"jar",
"war",
];
const filterWithLimit = (arr, value, length) =>
Array.from(
{ length },
function () {
return arr
.slice(this.index++)
.find((option, i) => (this.index += i, option.includes(value)));
},
{ index: 0 }
);
console.log(filterWithLimit(arr, "ar", 10));
Here is a short solution which doesn't continue searching after the limit is reached:
function filter_n(array, limit, test) {
let ret = []
array.find((x)=> test(x) && ret.push(x)>=limit )
return ret
}
when test(x) is true, it calls ret.push(x) (which adds x to ret and outputs the length of ret)
then, once ret's length is >= limit, the inner function returns true, and find stops looping because it "found" a result
In Javascript, I'm trying to take an initial array of number values and count the elements inside it. Ideally, the result would be two new arrays, the first specifying each unique element, and the second containing the number of times each element occurs. However, I'm open to suggestions on the format of the output.
For example, if the initial array was:
5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4
Then two new arrays would be created. The first would contain the name of each unique element:
5, 2, 9, 4
The second would contain the number of times that element occurred in the initial array:
3, 5, 1, 1
Because the number 5 occurs three times in the initial array, the number 2 occurs five times and 9 and 4 both appear once.
I've searched a lot for a solution, but nothing seems to work, and everything I've tried myself has wound up being ridiculously complex. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks :)
You can use an object to hold the results:
const arr = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
const counts = {};
for (const num of arr) {
counts[num] = counts[num] ? counts[num] + 1 : 1;
}
console.log(counts);
console.log(counts[5], counts[2], counts[9], counts[4]);
So, now your counts object can tell you what the count is for a particular number:
console.log(counts[5]); // logs '3'
If you want to get an array of members, just use the keys() functions
keys(counts); // returns ["5", "2", "9", "4"]
const occurrences = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4].reduce(function (acc, curr) {
return acc[curr] ? ++acc[curr] : acc[curr] = 1, acc
}, {});
console.log(occurrences) // => {2: 5, 4: 1, 5: 3, 9: 1}
const arr = [2, 2, 5, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 9];
function foo (array) {
let a = [],
b = [],
arr = [...array], // clone array so we don't change the original when using .sort()
prev;
arr.sort();
for (let element of arr) {
if (element !== prev) {
a.push(element);
b.push(1);
}
else ++b[b.length - 1];
prev = element;
}
return [a, b];
}
const result = foo(arr);
console.log('[' + result[0] + ']','[' + result[1] + ']')
console.log(arr)
One line ES6 solution. So many answers using object as a map but I can't see anyone using an actual Map
const map = arr.reduce((acc, e) => acc.set(e, (acc.get(e) || 0) + 1), new Map());
Use map.keys() to get unique elements
Use map.values() to get the occurrences
Use map.entries() to get the pairs [element, frequency]
var arr = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4]
const map = arr.reduce((acc, e) => acc.set(e, (acc.get(e) || 0) + 1), new Map());
console.info([...map.keys()])
console.info([...map.values()])
console.info([...map.entries()])
If using underscore or lodash, this is the simplest thing to do:
_.countBy(array);
Such that:
_.countBy([5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4])
=> Object {2: 5, 4: 1, 5: 3, 9: 1}
As pointed out by others, you can then execute the _.keys() and _.values() functions on the result to get just the unique numbers, and their occurrences, respectively. But in my experience, the original object is much easier to deal with.
Don't use two arrays for the result, use an object:
a = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
result = { };
for(var i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) {
if(!result[a[i]])
result[a[i]] = 0;
++result[a[i]];
}
Then result will look like:
{
2: 5,
4: 1,
5: 3,
9: 1
}
How about an ECMAScript2015 option.
const a = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
const aCount = new Map([...new Set(a)].map(
x => [x, a.filter(y => y === x).length]
));
aCount.get(5) // 3
aCount.get(2) // 5
aCount.get(9) // 1
aCount.get(4) // 1
This example passes the input array to the Set constructor creating a collection of unique values. The spread syntax then expands these values into a new array so we can call map and translate this into a two-dimensional array of [value, count] pairs - i.e. the following structure:
Array [
[5, 3],
[2, 5],
[9, 1],
[4, 1]
]
The new array is then passed to the Map constructor resulting in an iterable object:
Map {
5 => 3,
2 => 5,
9 => 1,
4 => 1
}
The great thing about a Map object is that it preserves data-types - that is to say aCount.get(5) will return 3 but aCount.get("5") will return undefined. It also allows for any value / type to act as a key meaning this solution will also work with an array of objects.
function frequencies(/* {Array} */ a){
return new Map([...new Set(a)].map(
x => [x, a.filter(y => y === x).length]
));
}
let foo = { value: 'foo' },
bar = { value: 'bar' },
baz = { value: 'baz' };
let aNumbers = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4],
aObjects = [foo, bar, foo, foo, baz, bar];
frequencies(aNumbers).forEach((val, key) => console.log(key + ': ' + val));
frequencies(aObjects).forEach((val, key) => console.log(key.value + ': ' + val));
I think this is the simplest way how to count occurrences with same value in array.
var a = [true, false, false, false];
a.filter(function(value){
return value === false;
}).length
const data = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4]
function count(arr) {
return arr.reduce((prev, curr) => (prev[curr] = ++prev[curr] || 1, prev), {})
}
console.log(count(data))
2021's version
The more elegant way is using Logical nullish assignment (x ??= y) combined with Array#reduce() with O(n) time complexity.
The main idea is still using Array#reduce() to aggregate with output as object to get the highest performance (both time and space complexity) in terms of searching & construct bunches of intermediate arrays like other answers.
const arr = [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 9];
const result = arr.reduce((acc, curr) => {
acc[curr] ??= {[curr]: 0};
acc[curr][curr]++;
return acc;
}, {});
console.log(Object.values(result));
Clean & Refactor code
Using Comma operator (,) syntax.
The comma operator (,) evaluates each of its operands (from left to
right) and returns the value of the last operand.
const arr = [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 9];
const result = arr.reduce((acc, curr) => (acc[curr] = (acc[curr] || 0) + 1, acc), {});
console.log(result);
Output
{
"2": 5,
"4": 1,
"5": 3,
"9": 1
}
If you favour a single liner.
arr.reduce(function(countMap, word) {countMap[word] = ++countMap[word] || 1;return countMap}, {});
Edit (6/12/2015):
The Explanation from the inside out.
countMap is a map that maps a word with its frequency, which we can see the anonymous function. What reduce does is apply the function with arguments as all the array elements and countMap being passed as the return value of the last function call. The last parameter ({}) is the default value of countMap for the first function call.
ES6 version should be much simplifier (another one line solution)
let arr = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
let acc = arr.reduce((acc, val) => acc.set(val, 1 + (acc.get(val) || 0)), new Map());
console.log(acc);
// output: Map { 5 => 3, 2 => 5, 9 => 1, 4 => 1 }
A Map instead of plain Object helping us to distinguish different type of elements, or else all counting are base on strings
Edit 2020: this is a pretty old answer (nine years). Extending the native prototype will always generate discussion. Although I think the programmer is free to choose her own programming style, here's a (more modern) approach to the problem without extending Array.prototype:
{
// create array with some pseudo random values (1 - 5)
const arr = Array.from({length: 100})
.map( () => Math.floor(1 + Math.random() * 5) );
// frequencies using a reducer
const arrFrequencies = arr.reduce((acc, value) =>
({ ...acc, [value]: acc[value] + 1 || 1}), {} )
console.log(arrFrequencies);
console.log(`Value 4 occurs ${arrFrequencies[4]} times in arrFrequencies`);
// bonus: restore Array from frequencies
const arrRestored = Object.entries(arrFrequencies)
.reduce( (acc, [key, value]) => acc.concat(Array(value).fill(+key)), [] );
console.log(arrRestored.join());
}
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The old (2011) answer: you could extend Array.prototype, like this:
{
Array.prototype.frequencies = function() {
var l = this.length,
result = {
all: []
};
while (l--) {
result[this[l]] = result[this[l]] ? ++result[this[l]] : 1;
}
// all pairs (label, frequencies) to an array of arrays(2)
for (var l in result) {
if (result.hasOwnProperty(l) && l !== 'all') {
result.all.push([l, result[l]]);
}
}
return result;
};
var freqs = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4].frequencies();
console.log(`freqs[2]: ${freqs[2]}`); //=> 5
// or
var freqs = '1,1,2,one,one,2,2,22,three,four,five,three,three,five'
.split(',')
.frequencies();
console.log(`freqs.three: ${freqs.three}`); //=> 3
// Alternatively you can utilize Array.map:
Array.prototype.frequencies = function() {
var freqs = {
sum: 0
};
this.map(function(a) {
if (!(a in this)) {
this[a] = 1;
} else {
this[a] += 1;
}
this.sum += 1;
return a;
}, freqs);
return freqs;
}
}
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Based on answer of #adamse and #pmandell (which I upvote), in ES6 you can do it in one line:
2017 edit: I use || to reduce code size and make it more readable.
var a=[7,1,7,2,2,7,3,3,3,7,,7,7,7];
alert(JSON.stringify(
a.reduce((r,k)=>{r[k]=1+r[k]||1;return r},{})
));
It can be used to count characters:
var s="ABRACADABRA";
alert(JSON.stringify(
s.split('').reduce((a, c)=>{a[c]++?0:a[c]=1;return a},{})
));
A shorter version using reduce and tilde (~) operator.
const data = [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 9];
function freq(nums) {
return nums.reduce((acc, curr) => {
acc[curr] = -~acc[curr];
return acc;
}, {});
}
console.log(freq(data));
If you are using underscore you can go the functional route
a = ['foo', 'foo', 'bar'];
var results = _.reduce(a,function(counts,key){ counts[key]++; return counts },
_.object( _.map( _.uniq(a), function(key) { return [key, 0] })))
so your first array is
_.keys(results)
and the second array is
_.values(results)
most of this will default to native javascript functions if they are available
demo : http://jsfiddle.net/dAaUU/
So here's how I'd do it with some of the newest javascript features:
First, reduce the array to a Map of the counts:
let countMap = array.reduce(
(map, value) => {map.set(value, (map.get(value) || 0) + 1); return map},
new Map()
)
By using a Map, your starting array can contain any type of object, and the counts will be correct. Without a Map, some types of objects will give you strange counts.
See the Map docs for more info on the differences.
This could also be done with an object if all your values are symbols, numbers, or strings:
let countObject = array.reduce(
(map, value) => { map[value] = (map[value] || 0) + 1; return map },
{}
)
Or slightly fancier in a functional way without mutation, using destructuring and object spread syntax:
let countObject = array.reduce(
(value, {[value]: count = 0, ...rest}) => ({ [value]: count + 1, ...rest }),
{}
)
At this point, you can use the Map or object for your counts (and the map is directly iterable, unlike an object), or convert it to two arrays.
For the Map:
countMap.forEach((count, value) => console.log(`value: ${value}, count: ${count}`)
let values = countMap.keys()
let counts = countMap.values()
Or for the object:
Object
.entries(countObject) // convert to array of [key, valueAtKey] pairs
.forEach(([value, count]) => console.log(`value: ${value}, count: ${count}`)
let values = Object.keys(countObject)
let counts = Object.values(countObject)
var array = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
function countDuplicates(obj, num){
obj[num] = (++obj[num] || 1);
return obj;
}
var answer = array.reduce(countDuplicates, {});
// answer => {2:5, 4:1, 5:3, 9:1};
If you still want two arrays, then you could use answer like this...
var uniqueNums = Object.keys(answer);
// uniqueNums => ["2", "4", "5", "9"];
var countOfNums = Object.keys(answer).map(key => answer[key]);
// countOfNums => [5, 1, 3, 1];
Or if you want uniqueNums to be numbers
var uniqueNums = Object.keys(answer).map(key => +key);
// uniqueNums => [2, 4, 5, 9];
Here's just something light and easy for the eyes...
function count(a,i){
var result = 0;
for(var o in a)
if(a[o] == i)
result++;
return result;
}
Edit: And since you want all the occurences...
function count(a){
var result = {};
for(var i in a){
if(result[a[i]] == undefined) result[a[i]] = 0;
result[a[i]]++;
}
return result;
}
Solution using a map with O(n) time complexity.
var arr = [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 9];
const countOccurrences = (arr) => {
const map = {};
for ( var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++ ) {
map[arr[i]] = ~~map[arr[i]] + 1;
}
return map;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/simevidas/bnACW/
There is a much better and easy way that we can do this using ramda.js.
Code sample here
const ary = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
R.countBy(r=> r)(ary)
countBy documentation is at documentation
I know this question is old but I realized there are too few solutions where you get the count array as asked with a minimal code so here is mine
// The initial array we want to count occurences
var initial = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
// The count array asked for
var count = Array.from(new Set(initial)).map(val => initial.filter(v => v === val).length);
// Outputs [ 3, 5, 1, 1 ]
Beside you can get the set from that initial array with
var set = Array.from(new Set(initial));
//set = [5, 2, 9, 4]
My solution with ramda:
const testArray = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4]
const counfFrequency = R.compose(
R.map(R.length),
R.groupBy(R.identity),
)
counfFrequency(testArray)
Link to REPL.
Using MAP you can have 2 arrays in the output: One containing the occurrences & the other one is containing the number of occurrences.
const dataset = [2,2,4,2,6,4,7,8,5,6,7,10,10,10,15];
let values = [];
let keys = [];
var mapWithOccurences = dataset.reduce((a,c) => {
if(a.has(c)) a.set(c,a.get(c)+1);
else a.set(c,1);
return a;
}, new Map())
.forEach((value, key, map) => {
keys.push(key);
values.push(value);
});
console.log(keys)
console.log(values)
This question is more than 8 years old and many, many answers do not really take ES6 and its numerous advantages into account.
Perhaps is even more important to think about the consequences of our code for garbage collection/memory management whenever we create additional arrays, make double or triple copies of arrays or even convert arrays into objects. These are trivial observations for small applications but if scale is a long term objective then think about these, thoroughly.
If you just need a "counter" for specific data types and the starting point is an array (I assume you want therefore an ordered list and take advantage of the many properties and methods arrays offer), you can just simply iterate through array1 and populate array2 with the values and number of occurrences for these values found in array1.
As simple as that.
Example of simple class SimpleCounter (ES6) for Object Oriented Programming and Object Oriented Design
class SimpleCounter {
constructor(rawList){ // input array type
this.rawList = rawList;
this.finalList = [];
}
mapValues(){ // returns a new array
this.rawList.forEach(value => {
this.finalList[value] ? this.finalList[value]++ : this.finalList[value] = 1;
});
this.rawList = null; // remove array1 for garbage collection
return this.finalList;
}
}
module.exports = SimpleCounter;
Using Lodash
const values = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
const frequency = _.map(_.groupBy(values), val => ({ value: val[0], frequency: val.length }));
console.log(frequency);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/lodash.min.js"></script>
To return an array which is then sortable:
let array = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4]
let reducedArray = array.reduce( (acc, curr, _, arr) => {
if (acc.length == 0) acc.push({item: curr, count: 1})
else if (acc.findIndex(f => f.item === curr ) === -1) acc.push({item: curr, count: 1})
else ++acc[acc.findIndex(f => f.item === curr)].count
return acc
}, []);
console.log(reducedArray.sort((a,b) => b.count - a.count ))
/*
Output:
[
{
"item": 2,
"count": 5
},
{
"item": 5,
"count": 3
},
{
"item": 9,
"count": 1
},
{
"item": 4,
"count": 1
}
]
*/
Check out the code below.
<html>
<head>
<script>
// array with values
var ar = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
var Unique = []; // we'll store a list of unique values in here
var Counts = []; // we'll store the number of occurances in here
for(var i in ar)
{
var Index = ar[i];
Unique[Index] = ar[i];
if(typeof(Counts[Index])=='undefined')
Counts[Index]=1;
else
Counts[Index]++;
}
// remove empty items
Unique = Unique.filter(function(){ return true});
Counts = Counts.filter(function(){ return true});
alert(ar.join(','));
alert(Unique.join(','));
alert(Counts.join(','));
var a=[];
for(var i=0; i<Unique.length; i++)
{
a.push(Unique[i] + ':' + Counts[i] + 'x');
}
alert(a.join(', '));
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
function countOcurrences(arr){
return arr.reduce((aggregator, value, index, array) => {
if(!aggregator[value]){
return aggregator = {...aggregator, [value]: 1};
}else{
return aggregator = {...aggregator, [value]:++aggregator[value]};
}
}, {})
}
You can simplify this a bit by extending your arrays with a count function. It works similar to Ruby’s Array#count, if you’re familiar with it.
Array.prototype.count = function(obj){
var count = this.length;
if(typeof(obj) !== "undefined"){
var array = this.slice(0), count = 0; // clone array and reset count
for(i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
if(array[i] == obj){ count++ }
}
}
return count;
}
Usage:
let array = ['a', 'b', 'd', 'a', 'c'];
array.count('a'); // => 2
array.count('b'); // => 1
array.count('e'); // => 0
array.count(); // => 5
Gist
Edit
You can then get your first array, with each occurred item, using Array#filter:
let occurred = [];
array.filter(function(item) {
if (!occurred.includes(item)) {
occurred.push(item);
return true;
}
}); // => ["a", "b", "d", "c"]
And your second array, with the number of occurrences, using Array#count into Array#map:
occurred.map(array.count.bind(array)); // => [2, 1, 1, 1]
Alternatively, if order is irrelevant, you can just return it as a key-value pair:
let occurrences = {}
occurred.forEach(function(item) { occurrences[item] = array.count(item) });
occurences; // => {2: 5, 4: 1, 5: 3, 9: 1}