freeCodeCamp Challenge Guide: Word frequency

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Word frequency

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Solutions

Solution 1 (Click to Show/Hide)

function wordFrequency(txt, n) {
  var words = txt.split(/\s+/);
  var wordCount = {};
  words.forEach(word => {
    if (word == '') {
      return;
    }
    const lowerWord = word.toLowerCase();
    wordCount[lowerWord] =
      lowerWord in wordCount ? wordCount[lowerWord] + 1 : 1;
  });
  var wordsArray = [];
  for (let [word, count] of Object.entries(wordCount)) {
    wordsArray.push([word, count]);
  }
  wordsArray.sort((a, b) => {
    if (a[1] !== b[1]) {
      return b[1] - a[1];
    } else if (a[0] !== b[0]) {
      return a[0] < b[0] ? -1 : 1;
    }
    return 0;
  });
  return wordsArray.slice(0, n);
}