Saturday, July 27, 2013

Find most Frequent character from a string

Given a character string. find the character with highest frequency. If  multiple such answer exists, print any character.


#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    string str;
    cin>>str;
    int count[255] = {0};
    int maxcount  = -1;
    char result;
    for(int i = 0; i < str.size(); i++)
    {
        count[str[i]]++;
        if(count[str[i]] > maxcount)
        {
            maxcount = count[str[i]];
            result = str[i];
        }
    }
    
    
    if(maxcount >  -1)
    {
        cout<<result<<endl;
    }
    
    
    return 0;

}

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