Print characters and their frequencies in order of occurrence

Difficulty Level : Easy
Last Updated : 17 May, 2021

Given string str containing only lowercase characters. The problem is to print the characters along with their frequency in the order of their occurrence and in the given format explained in the examples below.

Examples:

Input : str = "geeksforgeeks"
Output : g2 e4 k2 s2 f1 o1 r1

Input : str = "elephant"
Output : e2 l1 p1 h1 a1 n1 t1

Source: SAP Interview Experience | Set 26

Approach: Create a count array to store the frequency of each character in the given string str. Traverse the string str again and check whether the frequency of that character is 0 or not. If not 0, then print the character along with its frequency and update its frequency to 0 in the hash table. This is done so that the same character is not printed again.

C++

// C++ implementation to print the character and
// its frequency in order of its occurrence
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
#define SIZE 26
 
// function to print the character and its frequency
// in order of its occurrence
void printCharWithFreq(string str)
{
    // size of the string 'str'
    int n = str.size();
 
    // 'freq[]' implemented as hash table
    int freq[SIZE];
 
    // initialize all elements of freq[] to 0
    memset(freq, 0, sizeof(freq));
 
    // accumulate freqeuncy of each character in 'str'
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
        freq[str[i] - 'a']++;
 
    // traverse 'str' from left to right
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 
        // if frequency of character str[i] is not
        // equal to 0
        if (freq[str[i] - 'a'] != 0) {
 
            // print the character along with its
            // frequency
            cout << str[i] << freq[str[i] - 'a'] << " ";
 
            // update frequency of str[i] to 0 so
            // that the same character is not printed
            // again
            freq[str[i] - 'a'] = 0;
        }
    }
}
 
// Driver program to test above
int main()
{
    string str = "geeksforgeeks";
    printCharWithFreq(str);
    return 0;
}

Java

// Java implementation to print the character and
// its frequency in order of its occurrence
public class Char_frequency {
     
    static final int SIZE = 26;
      
    // function to print the character and its
    // frequency in order of its occurrence
    static void printCharWithFreq(String str)
    {
         // size of the string 'str'
        int n = str.length();
 
        // 'freq[]' implemented as hash table
        int[] freq = new int[SIZE];
 
        // accumulate freqeuncy of each character
        // in 'str'
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            freq[str.charAt(i) - 'a']++;
 
        // traverse 'str' from left to right
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 
            // if frequency of character str.charAt(i)
            // is not equal to 0
            if (freq[str.charAt(i) - 'a'] != 0) {
 
                // print the character along with its
                // frequency
                System.out.print(str.charAt(i));
                System.out.print(freq[str.charAt(i) - 'a'] + " ");
 
                // update frequency of str.charAt(i) to
                // 0 so that the same character is not
                // printed again
                freq[str.charAt(i) - 'a'] = 0;
            }
        }
    }
      
    // Driver program to test above
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        String str = "geeksforgeeks";
        printCharWithFreq(str);
    }
}
// This code is contributed by Sumit Ghosh

Python3

# Python3 implementation to pr the character and
# its frequency in order of its occurrence
 
# import library
import numpy as np
 
# Function to print the character and its
# frequency in order of its occurrence
def prCharWithFreq(str) :
     
    # Size of the 'str'
    n = len(str)
     
    # Initialize all elements of freq[] to 0
    freq = np.zeros(26, dtype = np.int)
 
    # Accumulate freqeuncy of each
    # character in 'str'
    for i in range(0, n) :
        freq[ord(str[i]) - ord('a')] += 1
                 
    # Traverse 'str' from left to right
    for i in range(0, n) :
         
        # if frequency of character str[i] 
        # is not equal to 0
        if (freq[ord(str[i])- ord('a')] != 0) :
             
            # print the character along
            # with its frequency
            print (str[i], freq[ord(str[i]) - ord('a')],
                                                end = " ")
 
            # Update frequency of str[i] to 0 so that
            # the same character is not printed again
            freq[ord(str[i]) - ord('a')] = 0
         
     
# Driver Code
if __name__ == "__main__" :
     
    str = "geeksforgeeks";
    prCharWithFreq(str);
     
# This code is contributed by 'Saloni1297'

C#

// C# implementation to print the
// character and its frequency in
// order of its occurrence
using System;
 
class GFG {
    static int SIZE = 26;
 
    // function to print the character and its
    // frequency in order of its occurrence
    static void printCharWithFreq(String str)
    {
        // size of the string 'str'
        int n = str.Length;
 
        // 'freq[]' implemented as hash table
        int[] freq = new int[SIZE];
 
        // accumulate freqeuncy of each character
        // in 'str'
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            freq[str[i] - 'a']++;
 
        // traverse 'str' from left to right
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 
            // if frequency of character str.charAt(i)
            // is not equal to 0
            if (freq[str[i] - 'a'] != 0) {
 
                // print the character along with its
                // frequency
                Console.Write(str[i]);
                Console.Write(freq[str[i] - 'a'] + " ");
 
                // update frequency of str.charAt(i) to
                // 0 so that the same character is not
                // printed again
                freq[str[i] - 'a'] = 0;
            }
        }
    }
 
    // Driver program to test above
    public static void Main()
    {
        String str = "geeksforgeeks";
        printCharWithFreq(str);
    }
}
 
// This code is contributed by Sam007

PHP

<?php
// PHP implementation to print the
// character and its frequency in
// order of its occurrence
$SIZE = 26;
 
// function to print the character and
// its frequency in order of its occurrence
function printCharWithFreq($str)
{
    global $SIZE;
     
    // size of the string 'str'
    $n = strlen($str);
 
    // 'freq[]' implemented as hash table
    $freq = array_fill(0, $SIZE, NULL);
 
    // accumulate freqeuncy of each
    // character in 'str'
    for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++)
        $freq[ord($str[$i]) - ord('a')]++;
 
    // traverse 'str' from left to right
    for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++)
    {
 
        // if frequency of character str[i]
        // is not equal to 0
        if ($freq[ord($str[$i]) - ord('a')] != 0)
        {
 
            // print the character along with
            // its frequency
            echo $str[$i] . $freq[ord($str[$i]) -
                                  ord('a')] . " ";
 
            // update frequency of str[i] to 0
            // so that the same character is
            // not printed again
            $freq[ord($str[$i]) - ord('a')] = 0;
        }
    }
}
 
// Driver Code
$str = "geeksforgeeks";
printCharWithFreq($str);
 
// This code is contributed by ita_c
?>

Javascript

<script>
// Javascript implementation to print the character and
// its frequency in order of its occurrence
     
    let SIZE = 26;
     
    // function to print the character and its
    // frequency in order of its occurrence
    function printCharWithFreq(str)
    {
     
        // size of the string 'str'
        let n = str.length;
  
        // 'freq[]' implemented as hash table
        let freq = new Array(SIZE);
        for(let i = 0; i < freq.length; i++)
        {
            freq[i] = 0;
        }
  
        // accumulate freqeuncy of each character
        // in 'str'
        for (let i = 0; i < n; i++)
            freq[str[i].charCodeAt(0) - 'a'.charCodeAt(0)]++;
  
        // traverse 'str' from left to right
        for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
  
            // if frequency of character str.charAt(i)
            // is not equal to 0
            if (freq[str[i].charCodeAt(0) - 'a'.charCodeAt(0)] != 0) {
  
                // print the character along with its
                // frequency
                document.write(str[i]);
                document.write(freq[str[i].charCodeAt(0) - 'a'.charCodeAt(0)] + " ");
  
                // update frequency of str.charAt(i) to
                // 0 so that the same character is not
                // printed again
                freq[str[i].charCodeAt(0) - 'a'.charCodeAt(0)] = 0;
            }
        }
    }
     
    // Driver program to test above
    let str = "geeksforgeeks";
    printCharWithFreq(str);
     
    // This code is contributed by rag2127.
     
</script>

Output

g2 e4 k2 s2 f1 o1 r1

Time Complexity: O(n), where n is the number of characters in the string.
Auxiliary Space: O(1), as there are only lowercase letters.

Alternate Solution (Use Hashing)
We can also use hashing to solve the problem.

C++

// C++ implementation to
//print the characters and
// frequencies in order
// of its occurrence
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
void prCharWithFreq(string s)
{
  // Store all characters and
  // their frequencies in dictionary
  unordered_map<char, int> d;
 
  for(char i : s)
  {
    d[i]++;
  }
 
  // Print characters and their
  // frequencies in same order
  // of their appearance
  for(char i : s)
  {
    // Print only if this
    // character is not printed
    // before
    if(d[i] != 0)
    {
      cout << i << d[i] << " ";
      d[i] = 0;
    }
  }
}
  
// Driver Code
int main()
{
  string s="geeksforgeeks";
  prCharWithFreq(s);
}
 
// This code is contributed by rutvik_56

Java

// Java implementation to
// print the characters and
// frequencies in order
// of its occurrence
import java.util.*;
class Gfg{
    public static void prCharWithFreq(String s)
    {
       
        // Store all characters and
        // their frequencies in dictionary
        Map<Character, Integer> d = new HashMap<Character, Integer>();
         
         
        for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++)
        {
            if(d.containsKey(s.charAt(i)))
            {
                d.put(s.charAt(i), d.get(s.charAt(i)) + 1);
            }
            else
            {
                d.put(s.charAt(i), 1);
            }
        }
         
        // Print characters and their
        // frequencies in same order
        // of their appearance
        for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++)
        {
           
            // Print only if this
            // character is not printed
            // before
            if(d.get(s.charAt(i)) != 0)
            {
                System.out.print(s.charAt(i));
                System.out.print(d.get(s.charAt(i)) + " ");
                d.put(s.charAt(i), 0);
            }           
        }
    }
   
    // Driver code
     public static void main(String []args)
     {
       String S = "geeksforgeeks";
       prCharWithFreq(S);
     }
}
 
// This code is contributed by avanitrachhadiya2155

Python3

# Python3 implementation to print the characters and
# frequencies in order of its occurrence
 
def prCharWithFreq(str):
 
    # Store all characters and their frequencies
    # in dictionary
    d = {}
    for i in str:
        if i in d:
            d[i] += 1
        else:
            d[i] = 1
     
    # Print characters and their frequencies in
    # same order of their appearance
    for i in str:
 
        # Print only if this character is not printed
        # before. 
        if d[i] != 0:
            print("{}{}".format(i,d[i]), end =" ")
            d[i] = 0
      
     
# Driver Code
if __name__ == "__main__" :
     
    str = "geeksforgeeks";
    prCharWithFreq(str);
     
# This code is contributed by 'Ankur Tripathi'

C#

// C# implementation to
// print the characters and
// frequencies in order
// of its occurrence
 
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
 
class GFG
{
     
public static void prCharWithFreq(string s)
{
   
  // Store all characters and
  // their frequencies in dictionary
  Dictionary<char,int> d = new Dictionary<char,int>();
  
  foreach(char i in s)
  {
      if(d.ContainsKey(i))
      {
        d[i]++;
      }
      else
      {
        d[i]=1; 
      }
  }
  
  // Print characters and their
  // frequencies in same order
  // of their appearance
  foreach(char i in s)
  {
    // Print only if this
    // character is not printed
    // before
    if(d[i] != 0)
    {
        Console.Write(i+d[i].ToString() + " ");
        d[i] = 0;
    }
  }
}
   
// Driver Code
public static void Main(string []args)
{
  string s="geeksforgeeks";
  prCharWithFreq(s);
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by pratham76

Javascript

<script>
// Javascript implementation to
//print the characters and
// frequencies in order
// of its occurrence
 
function prCharWithFreq(s)
{
  // Store all characters and
  // their frequencies in dictionary
  var d = new Map();
 
  s.split('').forEach(element => {
     
        if(d.has(element))
        {
            d.set(element, d.get(element)+1);
        }
        else
            d.set(element, 1);
  });
 
  // Print characters and their
  // frequencies in same order
  // of their appearance
 
  s.split('').forEach(element => {
    // Print only if this
    // character is not printed
    // before
    if(d.has(element) && d.get(element)!=0)
    {
      document.write( element + d.get(element) + " ");
      d.set(element, 0);
    }
  });
}
  
// Driver Code
var s="geeksforgeeks";
prCharWithFreq(s);
 
</script>

Output

g2 e4 k2 s2 f1 o1 r1

Method #3: Using built-in Python functions:

We can solve this problem quickly using the python Counter() method. The approach is very simple.

1) First create a dictionary using the Counter method having strings as keys and their frequencies as values.

2)Traverse in this dictionary print keys along with their values

Python3

# Python3 implementation to print the characters and
# frequencies in order of its occurrence
from collections import Counter
 
def prCharWithFreq(string):
 
    # Store all characters and their
    # frequencies suing Counter function
    d = Counter(string)
 
    # Print characters and their frequencies in
    # same order of their appearance
    for i in d:
        print(i+str(d[i]), end=" ")
 
 
string = "geeksforgeeks"
prCharWithFreq(string)
 
# This code is contributed by vikkycirus

Output

g2 e4 k2 s2 f1 o1 r1

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