How to Count Certain Elements in Array

How to count certain elements in array?

Very simple:

var count = 0;
for(var i = 0; i < array.length; ++i){
    if(array[i] == 2)
        count++;
}

Counting the occurrences / frequency of array elements

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)

PHP - count specific array values

$array = array("Kyle","Ben","Sue","Phil","Ben","Mary","Sue","Ben");
$counts = array_count_values($array);
echo $counts['Ben'];

How do I count the occurrences of a list item?

If you only want a single item's count, use the count method:

>>> [1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 4, 1].count(1)
3

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Important: this is very slow if you are counting multiple different items

Each count call goes over the entire list of n elements. Calling count in a loop n times means n * n total checks, which can be catastrophic for performance.

If you want to count multiple items, use Counter, which only does n total checks.

How do I count the occurrence of a certain item in an ndarray?

Using numpy.unique:

import numpy
a = numpy.array([0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 4])
unique, counts = numpy.unique(a, return_counts=True)

>>> dict(zip(unique, counts))
{0: 7, 1: 4, 2: 1, 3: 2, 4: 1}

Non-numpy method using collections.Counter;

import collections, numpy
a = numpy.array([0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 4])
counter = collections.Counter(a)

>>> counter
Counter({0: 7, 1: 4, 3: 2, 2: 1, 4: 1})

Counting array elements in Python

The method len() returns the number of elements in the list.

Syntax:

len(myArray)

Eg:

myArray = [1, 2, 3]
len(myArray)

Output:

3

Count the number of elements of an array in javascript

You can count the actual number of keys using Object.keys(array).length:

const answers = [];
answers[71] = {    field: 'value'};
answers[31] = {    field: 'value'};
console.log(Object.keys(answers).length); // prints 2

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