Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array?

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There's probably a fairly simple way to do this.

Basically I'm reading data from an xml file, I need to figure out how
many times identical data occurs in certain attributes, so far I've got
the data into two identical arrays and had the intention of nesting
iterators - seeing if the element was equal to the second and
incrementing every time a match was found. That obviously didn't work
out the way I initially thought.

This seems to be the jist of what I want but it's obviously returning a
count on every iteraton whereas I only want the final tally.

xml_events.each{|x|
  puts "#{x} occurs #{xml_events.count(x)} times"
}

Any ideas?

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Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? Thomas Greenwood <nedpointsman@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 05:01 -0500
  Re: Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? John Feminella <johnf@bitsbuilder.com> - 2011-05-15 06:49 -0500
  Re: Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-15 13:52 +0200
  Re: Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? Thomas Greenwood <nedpointsman@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 08:06 -0500
    Re: Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-15 15:37 +0200
    Re: Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 15:01 -0500
      Re: Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> - 2011-05-15 15:21 -0500
      Re: Counting how many times the same elements occurs in an array? David Jacobs <developer@wit.io> - 2011-05-15 15:33 -0500

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