Determine how many times an element appears in an array

This example returns the number of times John appears in a list of names.

Code

var( myNames=array('Tim', 'Jane', 'John', 'Stephanie', 'Jaques', 'John', 'Lucy', 'Wendy') )

var( myCount = $myNames->count('John') )

//output count
$myCount

Result

2