Counting Occurences - Parallel Arrays

The counting occurrences algorithm looks through a list of items and counts the number of times (occurrences) that a match is found. It again checks every item in the list and increments a counter when a match is found.

It is important to only output the amount of matches after the entire list has been traversed.  The algorithm is just a basic linear search but using a variable to keep a running total when a particular condition is met.

SearchItem = Input from USER

Total = 0

FOR counter = 0 TO Length(array)

IF array(counter) = SearchItem 

Total = total +1

END IF

END FOR