Count the repeated words words.

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In an array of words some words are repeated twice(exactly twice), count such words.

sample input:

hate love peace love peace hate love peace love peace.

output:

1

here 'hate' is repeated twice.

What I have tried:

a = input().split()
count = 0
for i in a:
    if i in a:
        count+=1 
print(count)

Posted 25-Feb-22 3:28am

shri harshan

Updated 27-Feb-22 6:02am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2022-02-25T04:11:00

Stop and think about what you are trying to do instead of trying to dive right into code.

Yes, split it into separate words, but after that you need to work out which words are repeated exactly twice, and there is a trick to that: sorting.
If you sort the array of words, then all the duplicates are right next to eat other ... so counting them becomes pretty trivial:
1) loop through the array once
1.2) Check if the current word is the same as the last.
1.2.1) If it is, increment the "duplicates" count
1.2.2) Otherwise, check the duplicates count.
1.2.2.1) If that is 2, increment the "two of" count, and reset the "duplicates" count.
1.2.2.2) Otherwise, reset the "duplicates" count.
1.3) set the last word to the current, and move on to next word.
2) After the loop, print the "two of" count.

Simple, and pretty efficient.

Give it a try!

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2022-02-25T04:38:00

Solution 2

Python

for i in a:
    if i in a: # you already know that i is in a from the previous line
        count+=1 # so the end result will just be a count of all the words.

Posted 25-Feb-22 4:38am

Richard MacCutchan

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Maciej Los 27-Feb-22 11:30am

5ed!

CPallini · Answer 3 · 2022-02-25T05:09:00

Solution 3

If you can use multiset...

Python

import multiset
l = "hate love peace love peace hate love peace love peace".split()
m = multiset.Multiset(l)
r = [x for x in m if m.get(x,0)==2]
print(r)

Posted 25-Feb-22 5:09am

CPallini

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Maciej Los 27-Feb-22 11:30am

5ed!

CPallini 28-Feb-22 2:01am

Thank you!

Patrice T · Answer 4 · 2022-02-25T07:54:00

Quote:
In an array of words some words are repeated twice(exactly twice), count such words.

You have basically 2 options:
1) Sort the list of word (any repeat will be next to the first occurence of a word), then scan the sorted list and count the repeats.
2) scan the unsorted list and build a dictionary. it a word is new, add it to dictionary, if word is already in dictionary, add 1 to number of time it is seen.

Maciej Los · Answer 5 · 2022-02-27T06:02:00

In addition to [Patrice T] solution - suggestion #2, you can achieve that by using below code:

Python

words = "hate love peace love peace hate love peace love peace".split()
uniquewords = dict((word,words.count(word)) for word in set(words))
print(uniquewords)

Prints:

{'peace': 4, 'hate': 2, 'love': 4}

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