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Solution Review: Occurrences of a Subarray in an Array

Solution Review: Occurrences of a Subarray in an Array

See the solution to the exercise on counting the instances of a subarray in an array.

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Solution

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# @array and @sub_array are already defined.
my %counts;
# set the hash with undef values for @subarray keys only
undef @counts { @subarray };
foreach my $element (@array) {
    # increment for only those entries that are defined
    exists $counts{$element} and $counts{$element}++;
}
# loop for printing the counts hash
foreach my $element (@subarray) {
    print "$element = $counts{$element}. ";
}

Explanation

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