Finding out how many times an array element appears

• Keep a variable for the total count
• Loop through the array and check if current value is the same as the one you’re looking for, if it is, increment the total count by one
• After the loop, total count contains the number of times the number you were looking for is in the array

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Here’s a simple implementation (since you don’t have the code that didn’t work)

var list = [2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 4, 5];  

function countInArray(array, what) {
    var count = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        if (array[i] === what) {
            count++;
        }
    }
    return count;
}

countInArray(list, 2); // returns 2
countInArray(list, 1); // returns 3

countInArray could also have been implemented as

function countInArray(array, what) {
    return array.filter(item => item == what).length;
}

More elegant, but maybe not as performant since it has to create a new array.