From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2011-10-20T12:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: why doesn't this work?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Gunther Diemant <g.diemant@gmx.net> wrote:
> def find_frequency(sentence, word)
>  sentence.split(/ /).select { |w| w.downcase == word.downcase }.length
> end
> or maybe even better:
> def find_frequency(sentence, word)
>  sentence.split(/ /).map { |w| w.downcase }.count(word.downcase)
> end

count does accept a block, so

def find_frequency(sentence, word)
  word=word.downcase
  sentence.split.count{ |w| w.downcase == word}
end