GeeksforGeeks-Style Array Counting | Dataford Interview Questions

Safe Security analyzes arrays of security findings collected from an organization's environment. Given an array of finding identifiers and a target identifier, return the number of times the target appears in the array.

Implement a function that counts exact matches. The array may contain duplicate identifiers, negative integers, and zero. Do not modify the input array.

Formal Specification

Input: An integer array findings and an integer target.
Output: An integer representing the number of elements in findings equal to target.
Matching must use exact integer equality.

Constraints

0 <= findings.length <= 10^5
-10^9 <= findings[i] <= 10^9
-10^9 <= target <= 10^9
The input array must not be modified

Function Signature

def count_occurrences(findings, target):

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