Coding Problem Interview Series: How to Count Character Occurrences in a String?

Ben Halpern - Jul 14 '23 - - Dev Community

📣 Calling experienced devs and recent interviewees! Join the "Coding Problem Interview Series" to help code newbies tackle interview questions assessing problem-solving skills, algorithmic knowledge, and implementation of sorting, string manipulation, and data structure algorithms.

Share your expertise and insights! Pleas share multiple perspectives and tips for standout answers!

Today's question is:

How would you write a function to count the occurrence of a specific character in a given string?

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