I want to count how many times each letter from params appears in this string. What am I doing wrong?
function solution(word) {
let temp = {}
for(const c of word) {
temp[c]++;
console.log(temp[c])
}
}
solution("PAPAYA")
It should output me numbers below for each letter, but i keep getting NaN
1 // P appeared once
1 // A appeared once
2 // P appeared second time
2 // A appeaed second time
1 // Y Once
3 // A appeared third time
so it should look like
{
A: 3,
P: 2,
Y: 1
}
Here is an easy solution without changing your code to much
function solution(word) {
let temp = {}
for(const c of word) {
if (temp[c] === undefined)
temp[c] = 1;
else temp[c]++;
}
console.log(temp)
}
solution("PAPAYA")At the start, no properties are set on the object, so accessing the value for a character results in undefined. Incrementing that produces NaN. You will need to specifically handle that case for the first time a letter appears.
function solution(word) {
let temp = {}
for(const c of word)
temp[c] = (temp[c] || 0) + 1;
return temp;
}
console.log(solution("PAPAYA"));set temp[c] to a number (0) first for example
if (NaN(temp[c])) temp[c] = 0
The reason for this is because if you do ++ on undefined, it is still undefined, and therefore, not a number