Count number of occurrences for each char in a string

Question

I want to count the number of occurrences of each character in a given string using JavaScript.

For example:

var str = \"I want to count the number         


        

Answer 1

You can use the maps in ES6 in Javascript. Provides a cleaner and concise code in my opinion. Here is how I would go about

function countChrOccurence ('hello') {
 let charMap = new Map();
 const count = 0;
  for (const key of str) {
   charMap.set(key,count); // initialize every character with 0. this would make charMap to be 'h'=> 0, 'e' => 0, 'l' => 0, 
  }

  for (const key of str) {
    let count = charMap.get(key);
    charMap.set(key, count + 1);
  }
// 'h' => 1, 'e' => 1, 'l' => 2, 'o' => 1

  for (const [key,value] of charMap) {
    console.log(key,value);
  }
// ['h',1],['e',1],['l',2],['o',1]
}