Character Frequency

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
    const char *text = "banana"; int counts[26] = {0};
    // Convert each lowercase letter to an array index.
    for (; *text; ++text) ++counts[*text - 'a'];
    for (int i = 0; i < 26; ++i) if (counts[i]) printf("%c=%d\n", 'a' + i, counts[i]);
}

#include <array>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main() {
    std::string text = "banana"; std::array<int, 26> counts{};
    // Convert each lowercase letter to an array index.
    for (char character : text) ++counts[character - 'a'];
    for (size_t i = 0; i < counts.size(); ++i) if (counts[i]) std::cout << char('a' + i) << '=' << counts[i] << '\n';
}