C Program to Count Occurrence of an Element in an Array

Write a C program to count occurrence of an element in an array using for loop.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	int Size, i, num, occr = 0;

	printf("Please Enter the Array size = ");
	scanf("%d", &Size);

	int arr[Size];
	
	printf("Enter the Array %d elements : ", Size);
	for (i = 0; i < Size; i++)
	{
		scanf("%d", &arr[i]);
	}

	printf("Please Enter the Array Item to Know = ");
	scanf("%d", &num);

	for (i = 0; i < Size; i++)
	{
		if (arr[i] == num)
		{
			occr++;
		}
	}

	printf("%d Occurred %d Times.\n", num, occr);
}

C program to count the occurrence of an element in an array using a while loop.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	int Size, i, num, occr = 0;
	printf("Please Enter the size = ");
	scanf("%d", &Size);

	int arr[Size];

	printf("Enter the %d elements : ", Size);
	i = 0;
	while (i < Size)
	{
		scanf("%d", &arr[i]);
		i++;
	}

	printf("Please Enter the Item to Know = ");
	scanf("%d", &num);

	i = 0;
	while (i < Size)
	{
		if (arr[i] == num)
		{
			occr++;
		}
		i++;
	}

	printf("%d Occurred %d Times.\n", num, occr);
}

Please Enter the size = 10
Enter the 10 elements : 2 22 33 2 44 2 55 7 2 90
Please Enter the Item to Know = 2
2 Occurred 4 Times.

In this C example, we removed the extra loop and counted the occurrence of the given array element within the do while loop.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	int Size, i, num, occr = 0;

	printf("Please Enter the Item to Know = ");
	scanf("%d", &num);

	printf("Please Enter the size = ");
	scanf("%d", &Size);

	int arr[Size];

	printf("Enter the %d elements : ", Size);
	i = 0;
	do
	{
		scanf("%d", &arr[i]);
		if (arr[i] == num)
		{
			occr++;
		}

	} while (++i < Size);

	printf("%d Occurred %d Times.\n", num, occr);
}

Please Enter the Item to Know = 50
Please Enter the size = 7
Enter the 7 elements : 50 90 120 50 70 50 100
50 Occurred 3 Times.