From: "Kroeger, Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>
Date: 2006-06-06T23:05:43+09:00
Subject: Re: mode

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel N [mailto:has.sox@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:54 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: mode
> 
> Hi Micheal,
> 
> I could not get your example to work properly.  It seemed to 
> return the
> count of the highest number in my initial list.
> 
> I modified it to
> 
> li.inject(Hash.new(0)){|s,v| s[v] += 1; s}.invert.max.last
> 
> and it gave me the result I expected.  Is it just me tho?

another one:

li.sort_by{|x| li.select{|y| x==y}.length}.last
 

cheers

Simon