Subj : Re: any function to handle this kind of counting?
To   : comp.programming
From : mensanator@aol.com
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 03:42 pm


Rob Thorpe wrote:
> mensanator@aol.com wrote:
> > Ross wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > > and then i want to count, say, for "1", there are two A's, one E, ...
> > >
> > > it seems that a for loop can do the job but as we don't know how many
> > > instances there are, i.e. don't know A, C, E and then what will occur in
> > > this corresponding vector, is there any function which is devoted to handle
> > > this kind of counting problem? thx!!
> >
> > Something like this, perhaps?
>
> You don't mention what language this is, is it Python?

Yes, sorry about that. I thought I was in comp.lang.python.

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