Count number of Mondays in a given date range

Question

Given a date range, I need to know how many Mondays (or Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc) are in that range.

I am currently working in C#.

Answer 1

This will return a collection of integers showing how many times each day of the week occurs within a date range

    int[] CountDays(DateTime firstDate, DateTime lastDate)
    {
        var totalDays = lastDate.Date.Subtract(firstDate.Date).TotalDays + 1;
        var weeks = (int)Math.Floor(totalDays / 7);

        var result = Enumerable.Repeat(weeks, 7).ToArray();
        if (totalDays % 7 != 0)
        {
            int firstDayOfWeek = (int)firstDate.DayOfWeek;
            int lastDayOfWeek = (int)lastDate.DayOfWeek;
            if (lastDayOfWeek < firstDayOfWeek)
                lastDayOfWeek += 7;
            for (int dayOfWeek = firstDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek <= lastDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek++)
                result[dayOfWeek % 7]++;
        }
        return result;
    }

Or a slight variation which lets you do FirstDate.TotalDaysOfWeeks(SecondDate) and returns a Dictionary

    public static Dictionary TotalDaysOfWeeks(this DateTime firstDate, DateTime lastDate)
    {
        var totalDays = lastDate.Date.Subtract(firstDate.Date).TotalDays + 1;
        var weeks = (int)Math.Floor(totalDays / 7);

        var resultArray = Enumerable.Repeat(weeks, 7).ToArray();
        if (totalDays % 7 != 0)
        {
            int firstDayOfWeek = (int)firstDate.DayOfWeek;
            int lastDayOfWeek = (int)lastDate.DayOfWeek;
            if (lastDayOfWeek < firstDayOfWeek)
                lastDayOfWeek += 7;
            for (int dayOfWeek = firstDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek <= lastDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek++)
                resultArray[dayOfWeek % 7]++;
        }
        var result = new Dictionary();
        for (int dayOfWeek = 0; dayOfWeek < 7; dayOfWeek++)
            result[(DayOfWeek)dayOfWeek] = resultArray[dayOfWeek];
        return result;
    }