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Created August 29, 2013 13:32
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Counts a number of identical elements within an array (word), returns them as a hash (counts). # {"foo" => 2, "bar" => 1}
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count_elements
def word_count
counts = Hash.new(0)
words.each do |word|
counts[word] += 1
end
return counts
end
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