Ruby Basic Exercises: Count the number of 5's in a given array

Ruby Basic: Exercise-41 with Solution

Write a Ruby program to count the number of 5's in a given array.

Ruby Code:

def array_count(array)
   count = 0
    array.each{|item| count += 1 unless item != 5}
    return count
end

print array_count([1, 2, 9]),"\n"
print array_count([1, 2, 5, 9]),"\n"
print array_count([1, 2, 5, 9, 5])

Output:

0
1
2

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