get tallest candle counts

Author: sanjaydeveloper15

Frequency-Counter/tallest-candle-counts.js

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+/** 
+ * Complete the 'birthdayCakeCandles' function below.
+ * 
+ * Q. You are in charge of the cake for a child's birthday. 
+ * It will have one candle for each year of their total age. 
+ * They will only be able to blow out the tallest of the candles. 
+ * Your task is to count how many candles are the tallest.
+ * 
+ * Example: [4, 4, 1, 3]
+ * The tallest candles are 4 units high. There are 2 candles with this height, so the function should return 2.
+ * 
+ * The function is expected to return an INTEGER.
+ * The function accepts INTEGER_ARRAY candles as parameter.
+ */
+
+function birthdayCakeCandles(candles) {
+    let maxVal = 0
+    let frequencyObj = {}
+    for(let i=0; i<candles.length; i++) {
+        if(frequencyObj[candles[i]]) {
+            frequencyObj[candles[i]] = frequencyObj[candles[i]] + 1
+        } else {
+            frequencyObj[candles[i]] = 1
+        }
+        if(maxVal < candles[i]) {
+            maxVal = candles[i]
+        }
+    }
+    console.log(maxVal, frequencyObj)
+    return frequencyObj[maxVal]
+}
+
+console.log(birthdayCakeCandles([3, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 7]))