Jason Burgett wrote: > I'm basically trying to the opposite of .uniq Let's say I have an array: > > ["a", "a", "a", "b", "c", "d", "d"] > > I would like to boil this down by first tossing the values that only > appear once. Which leaves me with: > > ["a", "a", "a", "d", "d"] > > Then I need to somehow determine that "a" appears 3 times and "d" > appears 2 times. Any help would be great. Thanks This should work: a = ["a", "a", "a", "b", "c", "d", "d"] a.uniq.map{|i| i if (a.map{|j| j if j==i}.length > 1)} -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.