Count Target

L1 Easy Arrays & Hashing

Concept

Counting how often a specific value appears is a loop plus an equality check. Equal-to comparisons are the core of most counting work.

Count how many times target appears inside nums, then return that count.

Examples

▸ nums = [1, 2, 3, 2, 2], target = 2

→ 3

▸ nums = [], target = 5

→ 0

▸ nums = [4, 4, 4], target = 4

→ 3

Progressive Hints

Hint 1 · Nudge

You're only looking for one exact value among the many.

Hint 2 · Plan

Start a counter at 0. Loop over the array and bump the counter whenever an element equals target. Return the counter.

Hint 3 · Approach

count = 0. For each n: if n == target then count = count + 1. Return count.

Output

// Run your code to see the output here.