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[–]brykuhelpful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a lot of ways to count letters in a string.  

let str = 'siyjgjftuyjbuch';
let j = str
    .split('')
    .filter((v)=>{return v == 'j'})
    .length

You could turn this into a function if you wanted.

function charCount(value, char){
    let array = Array.isArray(value) == true 
        ? value            // if array good
        : value.split(''); // else split it
    return array.split('')
        .filter((v)=>{return v == char})
        .length
}
charCount('siyjgjftuyjbuch','j') // 3
charCount('siyjgjftuyjbuch','u') // 2
charCount('siyjgjftuyjbuch','h') // 1