Get the element with the highest occurrence in an array

Question

I\'m looking for an elegant way of determining which element has the highest occurrence (mode) in a JavaScript array.

For example, in

[\'pear\', \'a         


        

Answer 1

var mode = 0;
var c = 0;
var num = new Array();
var value = 0;
var greatest = 0;
var ct = 0;

Note: ct is the length of the array.

function getMode()
{
    for (var i = 0; i < ct; i++)
    {
        value = num[i];
        if (i != ct)
        {
            while (value == num[i + 1])
            {
                c = c + 1;
                i = i + 1;
            }
        }
        if (c > greatest)
        {
            greatest = c;
            mode = value;
        }
        c = 0;
    }
}