Finding the no of occurences of a string in a string array

Question

hi
I have a string array which contains different strings say
for eg date
[21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 21/08/2008, 22/08/2008, 22/08/2008, 22/08/2008, 22/08/2008, 22/08/2008] etc.
for eg names
[coverage, search, search, combined-search, documentService, expand-term, id-mapping, citation, class, corporate-tree, document-update, coverage, coverage, search, search, combined-search, documentService, expand-term, id-mapping, citation, class, corporate-tree, document-update, coverage]
i need to find out the count of a particular date or name in the string array.
Also i will not be knowing what is the value that will be present in that string array.
the values are dynamic. please help to solve this.
thanks in advance
Mohan

Answer 1

In the same way use for date,names and other as required by you..sample code for nameimport java.io.*;
public class Test {
     public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
         int cnt=0;     
               String name[]={"coverage","abc","def","coverage", "search", "search"};
          BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
          System.out.println("enter name");
          String rv=br.readLine();
     for(int i=0;i<name.length;i++){
          if(rv.equals(name)){
               cnt++;
System.out.println("Name occured "+cnt+" times");