From: MoonWolf <moonwolf@...>
Date: 2002-07-13T21:05:30+09:00
Subject: Re: hey! where's #count?

> i went to count the number of equal objects in an array and discoverd
> there was no #count. that was odd, i thought, there's one for string.
> but then it occured to me, #count would be in Enumberable. but no. it is
> not. hey! why not? 

use Enumerable#select

  obj.select {|item| item==str}.size

or

  count=0
  obj.each {|item| count += 1 if item==str}
  count

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MoonWolf <moonwolf@moonwolf.com>