Re: modevalue of an array

From:
Rolf Magnus <ramagnus@t-online.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:39:28 +0100
Message-ID:
<hj3k31$5dg$02$1@news.t-online.com>
Larry wrote:

"John H." <oldman_fromthec@yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:01a7a4ed-6137-43f2-baed-04635caad658@30g2000yqu.googlegroups.com...

Yes it can be done.
If you post some of your efforts at doing this so far, we might be
able to help you more.


#include <iostream>
#include <map>
using namespace std;

#define length(x) (sizeof (x) / sizeof *(x))

int main()
{
 int a[] = {1,2,9,5,6,4,8,1,2,1,7,9,8,9,9,9,9,9};

 map<int,int> freq;

 for ( size_t i = 0; i < length ( a ); i++ )
 {
  ++freq[a[i]];
 }

 map<int,int>::const_iterator it = freq.begin();

 while ( it != freq.end() )
 {
  cout<< it->first <<": "<< it->second <<endl;
  ++it;
 }

 return 0;
}


That's a good start. Now all you need to in your second loop is remember the
pair that had the largest value for it->second you have encountered so far
(*it is of type std::pair<int, int>). After the loop, the first member of
that pair is what you were searching for.

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