At 8:35 PM +0200 12/24/06, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Has this wheel been invented, but simpler? I've an array of words that
I'd like to know how many occurences of each there are. For instance:
$fruits = array(
"lemon",
"orange",
"banana",
"apple",
"orange",
"banana",
"orange" );
And I'd like to create this:
$fruit_count = array(
"lemon" => 1,
"orange" => 3,
"banana" => 2,
"apple" => 1 );
My current plan of action is to create $fruit_count, and check if
$fruits[0] is listed in it. If not, then I'll add it with a value of
1. If it is already listed then I'll just increase it's number. Ditto
for $fruits[1] and so on...
Has someone cleverer than myself found a better way of doing this?
This function will be used as a word count for text documents, and
some of them have over 5000 words. So if there's a better way of doing
this I'd love to know. Thanks.
Dotan Cohen
Dotan:
array_count_values()
tedd
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