From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T12:28:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting Frequency of Values in an Array (And Sorting by Frequency?)

Hi,

At Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:52:19 +0900,
x1 wrote in [ruby-talk:219218]:
> Is there no method for an array that will tell me the # of occurrences
> for an item?
>
> IE:  ["a", "a", "a", "b", "c", "c"].count("a") #producing 3 ?

FYI, Enumerable in 1.9 has that method.

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Nobu Nakada