Write a program that accepts an input string from the user, and determines how m

Question

Write a program that accepts an input string from the user, and determines

how many times a user-specified character appears within the string. (Hint:

Look up the 's' option of the input function using the MATLAB Help

Browser.)

Actually you have to get 2 things from the user:

The user-specified input string to search in

The user-specified character to search for (in order to count how many times it occurs)

If the user enters a string instead of a single character you should just use the first character of the string.

Example Run #1
     Enter a string to search: Look for me please
     Enter a character to look for: e
     e was found 3 times in Look for me please

Example Run #2
            Enter a string to search: This is another test

Enter a character to look for: stop

s was found 3 times in This is another test

Example Run #3
            Enter a string to search: This is another test

Enter a character to look for: z

z was found 0 times in This is another test

Explanation / Answer

import java.util.Scanner; 02 03 public class LetterCounter 04 { 05     public static void main(String[] args) 06     { 07         String name;            //String for user input 08         String upper;           //Convert String to upper case 09         String upper2;      //Convert Letter string to upper case 10         String letter;          //Letter that the user enters 11         char charLetter;        //Get the character in string 12         int i;              //For counting number of characters in string 13         int count = 0;      //For counting how many characters in string 14           15         //Create scanner object 16         Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); 17           18         //Get the users String input 19         System.out.println("Please enter any word"); 20         name = keyboard.nextLine(); 21         upper = name.toUpperCase(); 22           23         //Get the character to count 24         System.out.println("Please enter any letter in that word."); 25         letter = keyboard.nextLine(); 26         upper2 = letter.toUpperCase(); 27         charLetter = upper2.charAt(0); 28           29         //Controlled loop to count characters 30         for (i = 0; i

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