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

You can try this:

 // using splice()   
 // get the element with the highest occurence in an array
    function mc(a) {
      var us = [], l;
      // find all the unique elements in the array
      a.forEach(function (v) {
        if (us.indexOf(v) === -1) {
          us.push(v);
        }
      });
      l = us.length;
      while (true) {
        for (var i = 0; i < l; i ++) {
          if (a.indexOf(us[i]) === -1) {
            continue;
          } else if (a.indexOf(us[i]) != -1 && a.length > 1) {
            // just delete it once at a time
            a.splice(a.indexOf(us[i]), 1);
          } else {
            // default to last one
            return a[0];
          }
        }
      }
    }

// using string.match method
function su(a) {
    var s = a.join(),
            uelms = [],
            r = {},
            l,
            i,
            m;

    a.forEach(function (v) {
        if (uelms.indexOf(v) === -1) {
            uelms.push(v);
        }
    });

    l = uelms.length;

    // use match to calculate occurance times
    for (i = 0; i < l; i ++) {
        r[uelms[i]] = s.match(new RegExp(uelms[i], 'g')).length;
    }

    m = uelms[0];
    for (var p in r) {
        if (r[p] > r[m]) {
            m = p;
        } else {
            continue;
        }
    }

    return m;
}