I have seen similar questions like this asked before, such as counting characters in a given string. However when it comes to comparing given string to the letters of the alphabet and returning an object with occurences such as:
const letters = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"]
const sampleString = "a bee";
const results = {
a: 1,
b: 1,
c: 0,
d: 0,
e: 2,
f: 0,
...
}
We can use Array.reduce(), to count letters in the sampleString.
We start by creating a letterMap to specify all valid letters to be counted.
In the reduce loop, we only increment letters that are present in the letterMap, using the (c in acc) expression.
const letters = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"]
const sampleString = "a bee";
const letterMap = letters.reduce((acc, c) => {
acc[c] = 0;
return acc;
}, {});
const result = [...sampleString].reduce((acc, c) => {
if (c in acc) acc[c]++;
return acc;
}, letterMap);
console.log('Result:', result)
.as-console-wrapper { max-height: 100% !important; top: 0; }Here's another way, using just one loop, again using Array.reduce(), this assumes we don't wish to count whitespace:
const letters = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"]
const sampleString = "a bee";
const result = [...letters, ...sampleString].reduce((acc, c) => {
if (c in acc) {
acc[c]++;
} else if (c.trim()) {
acc[c] = 0;
}
return acc;
}, {});
console.log('Result:', result).as-console-wrapper { max-height: 100% !important; top: 0; }I like using Object.fromEntries for this:
const sampleString = "a bee";
const result = Object.fromEntries(Array.from("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", ch => [ch, 0]));
for (let ch of sampleString)
if (ch in result) result[ch]++;
console.log(result);Using Array.reduce and String.match may be an idea. So, for each letter of letters, use match (length) to determine the frequency of the letter in the given sample.
const letters = `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz`.split(``);
const freq = (chr, sample) => (sample.match(RegExp(chr, `g`)) || []).length;
const result = letters.reduce( (acc, chr) =>
({...acc, [chr]: freq(chr, acc.sample)}), {sample: "a bee"});
console.log(result);