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JavaScript count_chars

Returns info about what characters are used in input

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function count_chars (str, mode) {
    // Returns info about what characters are used in input  
    // 
    // version: 912.1315
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/count_chars    // +   original by: Ates Goral (http://magnetiq.com)
    // +    tweaked by: Jack
    // +   bugfixed by: Onno Marsman
    // +      input by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)    // +    revised by: Theriault
    // *     example 1: count_chars("Hello World!", 3);
    // *     returns 1: "!HWdelor"
    // *     example 2: count_chars("Hello World!", 1);
    // *     returns 2: {32:1,33:1,72:1,87:1,100:1,101:1,108:3,111:2,114:1}    var result = {}, resultArr = [], i;
 
    str = ('' + str).split('').sort().join('').match(/(.)\1*/g);
 
    if ((mode & 1) == 0) {        for (i = 0; i != 256; i++) {
             result[i] = 0;
        }
    }
     if (mode === 2 || mode === 4) {
 
        for (i = 0; i != str.length; i += 1) {
             delete result[str[i].charCodeAt(0)];
        }        for (i in result) {
            result[i] = (mode === 4) ? String.fromCharCode(i) : 0;
        }
 
    } else if (mode === 3) { 
        for (i = 0; i != str.length; i += 1) {
             result[i] = str[i].slice(0, 1);
        }
     } else {
 
        for (i = 0; i != str.length; i += 1) {
             result[str[i].charCodeAt(0)] = str[i].length;
        } 
    }
    if (mode < 3) {
        return result;
    } 
    for (i in result) {
       resultArr.push(result[i]);
    }
    return resultArr.join('');    }
external links: original PHP docs | raw js source

Examples

» Example 1

Running

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count_chars("Hello World!", 3);

Should return

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"!HWdelor"

» Example 2

Running

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count_chars("Hello World!", 1);

Should return

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{32:1,33:1,72:1,87:1,100:1,101:1,108:3,111:2,114:1}

Dependencies

No dependencies, you can use this function standalone.

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Michael White
2 Mar '08 Permalink

q  Not sure exactly what is causing it but I found a bug in Opera 9.20 where the output of example 1 is incorrect.
<br />
Opera: !HWdelor
<br />
Other browsers: Helo Wrd!
<br />
Strange bug. If I find a fix I'll post it.

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Kevin van Zonneveld
22 Jan '08 Permalink

q   @ Ates Goral: Wicked Ates! Unfortunately there is one thing at example 6:

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// *     example 6: count_chars(&quot;Hello World!&quot;, 4);
    // *     returns 6: &quot;\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\b \n\v\f\r\x0E\x0F\x10\x11\x12\x13\x14\x15\x16\x17\x18\x19\x1A\x1B\x1C\x1D\x1E\x1F\&quot;#$%&amp;'()*+,-./0123456789:;&lt;=&gt;?@ABCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ[\\]^_`abcfghijkmnpqstuvwxyz{|}~\x7F\x80\x81\x82\x83\x84\x85\x86\x87\x88\x89\x8A\x8B\x8C\x8D\x8E\x8F\x90\x91\x92\x93\x94\x95\x96\x97\x98\x99\x9A\x9B\x9C\x9D\x9E\x9F\xA0\xA1\xA2\xA3\xA4\xA5\xA6\xA7\xA8\xA9\xAA\xAB\xAC\xAD\xAE\xAF\xB0\xB1\xB2\xB3\xB4\xB5\xB6\xB7\xB8\xB9\xBA\xBB\xBC\xBD\xBE\xBF\xC0\xC1\xC2\xC3\xC4\xC5\xC6\xC7\xC8\xC9\xCA\xCB\xCC\xCD\xCE\xCF\xD0\xD1\xD2\xD3\xD4\xD5\xD6\xD7\xD8\xD9\xDA\xDB\xDC\xDD\xDE\xDF\xE0\xE1\xE2\xE3\xE4\xE5\xE6\xE7\xE8\xE9\xEA\xEB\xEC\xED\xEE\xEF\xF0\xF1\xF2\xF3\xF4\xF5\xF6\xF7\xF8\xF9\xFA\xFB\xFC\xFD\xFE\xFF&quot;

It pretty much destroyed the tester-page because of all the messed up characters so for now I had to exclude it :( Other than that... awesome :)


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