Find a letter that occurs the most in a given sentence.
In our case example: in the phrase 'hey there my friend' the letter** e** occurs the most
const str = 'hey there my friend';
const mostFrequent = s => {
/* declare a helper obj */
const obj = {};
// get a words array out of the string
const string = s.split(' ');
// loop over the words
for (let word of string) {
//loop over each letter in every word
for (let letter of word) {
// assign 1 if that propriety does not exist in obj
if (!obj[letter]) obj[letter] = 1;
// increase by one if it exists
else obj[letter]++;
}
}
//declare 2 helper variables
let max = 0;
let prop = '';
// loop over the obj
for (let key in obj) {
/* if the value is bigger than max (which first time is 0),
assign the new value to max and return that key. */
if (obj[key] > max) {
/* reassign max to the current value
in the loop if the value is bigger than max */
max = obj[key];
//return the key of the object for the biggest value of the max
prop = key;
}
}
return prop;
};
console.log(mostFrequent(str));```
Top comments (7)
awesome!
simple and straight forward
Yup, doesn't need any explanation ๐
Hi, don't mean to discourage you, but how is this problem even remotely related to frontend?