Java compressing Strings

Question

I need to create a method that receives a String and also returns a String.

Ex input: AAABBBBCC

Ex output: 3A4B2C

Well, this is quite embarrassing a

Answer 1

The code below will ask the user for user to input a specific character to count the occurrence .

import java.util.Scanner;

class CountingOccurences {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner inp = new Scanner(System.in);

    String str;
    char ch;
    int count=0;

    System.out.println("Enter the string:");
    str=inp.nextLine();
    System.out.println("Enter th Char to see the occurence\n");
    ch=inp.next().charAt(0);

    for(int i=0;i