DEV Community

DPC
DPC

Posted on

5 3 2 4 2

Daily JavaScript Challenge #JS-216: Count the Occurrences of Each Character in a String

Daily JavaScript Challenge: Count the Occurrences of Each Character in a String

Hey fellow developers! 👋 Welcome to today's JavaScript coding challenge. Let's keep those programming skills sharp!

The Challenge

Difficulty: Medium

Topic: String Manipulation

Description

Given a string, write a JavaScript function that counts the occurrences of each character in the string (case-sensitive) and returns an object with characters as keys and their counts as values.

Ready to Begin?

https://www.dpcdev.com/

  1. Fork this challenge
  2. Write your solution
  3. Test it against the provided test cases
  4. Share your approach in the comments below!

Want to Learn More?

Check out the documentation about this topic here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object

Join the Discussion!

  • How did you approach this problem?
  • Did you find any interesting edge cases?
  • What was your biggest learning from this challenge?

Let's learn together! Drop your thoughts and questions in the comments below. 👇


This is part of our Daily JavaScript Challenge series. Follow me for daily programming challenges and let's grow together! 🚀

javascript #programming #coding #dailycodingchallenge #webdev

A Simple API Call to Bypass any Anti-bot Measure

A Simple API Call to Bypass any Anti-bot Measure

Eliminate the distractions from frequent anti-bot blocks. Secure your development time and resources with ZenRows. Simply connect our Universal Scraper API to your project and scrape any website reliably and at scale without limitations.

Start Your Free Trail Now!

Top comments (1)

Collapse
 
johnrusu profile image
Rusu Ionut
function count(s, c)
{
    let res = 0;

    for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++)
    {
        // checking character in string
        if (s.charAt(i) == c)
        res++;
    } 
    return res;
}


    let str= "geeksforgeeks";
    const allCharacters = new Set(str.split(""));
    allCharacters.forEach(character=>{
       console.log(`carater: ${character} ${count(str, character)}`);
    });
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Learn How Clay Overcame Web Scraping Barriers

Learn How Clay Overcame Web Scraping Barriers

Clay helps customers enrich their sales pipeline with data from even the most protected sites. Discover how Clay overcame initial limitations and scaled past data extraction bottlenecks with a boost from ZenRows.

Read More

Announcing the First DEV Education Track: "Build Apps with Google AI Studio"

The moment is here! We recently announced DEV Education Tracks, our new initiative to bring you structured learning paths directly from industry experts.

Dive in and Learn

DEV is bringing Education Tracks to the community. Dismiss if you're not interested. ❤️