How to best keep track of answer count?

[Handycam]

I have a quiz created in Flex using Spark forms, with a series of questions which are a group of radio buttons.  When the user clicks "next", I get the value of the selected radio button in the group.

What I need to do is keep track of these values; at the end of the quiz I will need to see which value was chosen the most. So if the user mostly picked the questions with a "3" value, I can display a summary based on that, e.g. "You mostly chose type 3 answers".

I was thinking about having an int variable for every choice (there are 5), and incrementing the appropriate variable when the user clicks "next", as in

private function enterScore(i:int):void {

switch (i){

     case 1:

     num1++;

     break;

But this seems unwieldy.  Can anyone suggest a better way?

I also will need to compare the 5 tallies for which one was chosen the most...  Any ideas on that?

Thanks.

[kglad]

an associative array would be pretty straight-forward:

var answerObj:Object={};

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if(answerObj[radiogroupvalue]){

answerObj[radiogroupvalue]++;

} else {

answerObj[radiogroupvalue]=1;

}