strange counting function needed

["Leeds, Mark" <mleeds@mlp.com>]

i played around and i can't figure out the following "

 

i have a vector of strings called temp such as

 

"AAA" "BBB" "AAA" "CCC" "DDD"

 

so temp1 = "AAA" etc.

 

what i want to return is a vector of numbers

representing how many times the string is in the vector

 

so in this case i would want

 

2    1    2   1    1

 

with looping this is not a problem but

i can't figure out how to do it without looping.

 

i thought

 

temp2_sum(temp == ( temp[1:length(temp)] ))

 

might work but it doesn't.

 

 

                                        thanks