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

Try it too, this does not take in account browser version.

function mode(arr){
var a = [],b = 0,occurrence;
    for(var i = 0; i < arr.length;i++){
    if(a[arr[i]] != undefined){
        a[arr[i]]++;
    }else{
        a[arr[i]] = 1;
    }
    }
    for(var key in a){
    if(a[key] > b){
        b = a[key];
        occurrence = key;
    }
    }
return occurrence;
}
alert(mode(['segunda','terça','terca','segunda','terça','segunda']));

Please note that this function returns latest occurence in the array when 2 or more entries appear same number of times!