angelikatyborska's solution to Word Count on the JavaScript track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

Note:

This solution was written on an old version of Exercism. The tests below might not correspond to the solution code, and the exercise may have changed since this code was written.

Given a phrase, count the occurrences of each word in that phrase.

For example for the input "olly olly in come free"

olly: 2
in: 1
come: 1
free: 1

Setup

Go through the setup instructions for JavaScript to install the necessary dependencies:

http://exercism.io/languages/javascript/installation

Running the test suite

The provided test suite uses Jasmine. You can install it by opening a terminal window and running the following command:

npm install -g jasmine

Run the test suite from the exercise directory with:

jasmine word-count.spec.js

In many test suites all but the first test have been marked "pending". Once you get a test passing, activate the next one by changing xit to it.

Source

This is a classic toy problem, but we were reminded of it by seeing it in the Go Tour.

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

word-count.spec.js

var Words = require('./word-count');

describe('count()', function () {
  var words = new Words();

  it('counts one word', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { word: 1 };
    expect(words.count('word')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts one of each word', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { one: 1, of: 1, each: 1 };
    expect(words.count('one of each')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts multiple occurrences of a word', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { one: 1, fish: 4, two: 1, red: 1, blue: 1 };
    expect(words.count('one fish two fish red fish blue fish')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('handles cramped lists', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { one: 1, two: 1, three: 1 };
    expect(words.count('one,two,three')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('ignores punctuation', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { car: 1, carpet: 1, as: 1, java: 1, javascript: 1 };
    expect(words.count('car : carpet as java: javascript!!&@$%^&')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('includes numbers', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { testing: 2, 1: 1, 2: 1 };
    expect(words.count('testing 1 2 testing')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('normalizes to lowercase', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { go: 3 };
    expect(words.count('go Go GO')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts words with apostrophes', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { 'first': 1, 'don\'t': 2, 'laugh': 1, 'then': 1, 'cry': 1 };
    expect(words.count('First: don\'t laugh. Then: don\'t cry.')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts words with quotations', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { 'joe': 1, 'can\'t': 1, 'tell': 1, 'between': 1, 'large': 2, 'and': 1 };
    expect(words.count('Joe can\'t tell between \'large\' and large.')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts properly international characters', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { 'hola': 1, 'qué': 1, 'tal': 1, 'привет': 1 };
    expect(words.count('¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? Привет!')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts multiline', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { hello: 1, world: 1 };
    expect(words.count('hello\nworld')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts tabs as white space', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { hello: 1, world: 1 };
    expect(words.count('hello\tworld')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('counts multiple spaces as one', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { hello: 1, world: 1 };
    expect(words.count('hello  world')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('does not count leading or trailing whitespace', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { introductory: 1, course: 1 };
    expect(words.count('\t\tIntroductory Course      ')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });

  xit('handles properties that exist on Object’s prototype', function () {
    var expectedCounts = { reserved: 1, words: 1, like: 1, constructor: 1, and: 1, tostring: 1, ok: 1 };
    expect(words.count('reserved words like constructor and toString ok?')).toEqual(expectedCounts);
  });
});

'use strict';

module.exports = count_words;

function count_words(input) {
	var word_count = {};
	var words_array = input.trim().split(/[\s]+/);

	words_array.forEach(function(word) {
		if (word_count.hasOwnProperty(word)) {
			word_count[word] += 1;
		}
		else {
			word_count[word] = 1;
		}
	});

	return word_count;
};

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