title: Counting an Occurrence in an Array (Java)
body: <p>I am completely stumped. I took a break for a few hours and I can't seem to figure this one out. It's upsetting!</p>
  
  <p>I know that I need to check the current element in the array and see if it appears elsewhere in the array. The idea is to output the following: </p>
  
  <p>The user is asked to enter 10 integers and those integers are assigned to an array (hence the "numbers" as a paremeter for the method). Let's say I enter "1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." The printed results should be "1 occurs 2 times. 2 occurs 1 time. 3 occurs 2 times. 4 occurs 1 time. 5 occurs 1 time. 6 occurs 1 time. 7 occurs 1 time. 8 occurs 1 time." This printing will be done in a separate method. </p>
  
  <p>Everything in my code works except for this method that I created to count the occurrences.</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static int getOccurrences(int[] numbers)
  {
      int count = 0;
  
      for (int i = 0; i &lt; numbers.length; i++)
      {
          int currentInt = numbers[i];;
  
          if (currentInt == numbers[i])
          {
              count++;
          }
      }
  
      return count;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know what the issue is here. I set the current integer element in the array to the variable currentInt. The if statement counts every integer element in the array, hence the output being "[I@2503dbd3 occurs 10 times." </p>
  
  <p>How do I keep track of the occurrences of each element in the array?</p>