Counting an Occurrence in an Array (Java)

Question

I am completely stumped. I took a break for a few hours and I can't seem to figure this one out. It's upsetting!

I know that I need to check the current element in the array and see if it appears elsewhere in the array. The idea is to output the following:

The user is asked to enter 10 integers and those integers are assigned to an array (hence the "numbers" as a paremeter for the method). Let's say I enter "1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." The printed results should be "1 occurs 2 times. 2 occurs 1 time. 3 occurs 2 times. 4 occurs 1 time. 5 occurs 1 time. 6 occurs 1 time. 7 occurs 1 time. 8 occurs 1 time." This printing will be done in a separate method.

Everything in my code works except for this method that I created to count the occurrences.

public static int getOccurrences(int[] numbers)
{
    int count = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < numbers.length; i++)
    {
        int currentInt = numbers[i];;

        if (currentInt == numbers[i])
        {
            count++;
        }
    }

    return count;
}

I know what the issue is here. I set the current integer element in the array to the variable currentInt. The if statement counts every integer element in the array, hence the output being "[I@2503dbd3 occurs 10 times."

How do I keep track of the occurrences of each element in the array?

Answer 1

package countoccurenceofnumbers;

import java.util.Scanner;
public class CountOccurenceOfNumbers {


    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        int [] num = new int[100]; 
        int [] count = new int[100];
        //Declare counter variable i
        //and temp variable that will
        //temporarily hold the value
        //at a certain index of num[] array
        int i,temp = 0;
        System.out.println("Enter the integers between 1 and 100: ");

        //Initialize num[] array with user input
        for(i=0; i < num.length; i++){
            num[i] = input.nextInt();
            //expected input will end when user enters zero
            if(num[i] == 0){
                break;
            }
        }//end of for loop

        //value at a given index of num array 
        //will be stored in temp variable
        //temp variable will act as an index value
        //for count array and keep track of number
        //of occurences of each number
        for(i = 0; i < num.length; i++){
                temp = num[i];
                count[temp]++;
            }//end of for looop

        for(i=1; i < count.length; i++){

            if(count[i] > 0 && count[i] == 1){
             System.out.printf("%d occurs %d time\n",i, count[i]);
             }
            else if(count[i] >=2){
                System.out.printf("%d occurs %d times\n",i, count[i]);
            }


         }//end of for loop

    }//end of main
    }//end of CountOccurrenceOfNumbers

///////////OUTPUT//////////////////////

Enter the integers between 1 and 100:
2 5 6 5 4 3 23 43 2 0
2 occurs 2 times
3 occurs 1 time
4 occurs 1 time
5 occurs 2 times
6 occurs 1 time
23 occurs 1 time
43 occurs 1 time
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 3 minutes 23 seconds)