Counting letter occurrence

Question

The program needs to count and display the number of times that the specified charector appears in the text file.

Currently turning up zero for the total. I\'m not i

Answer 1

This answer is assuming each line in your text file contains just one letter as your question suggests.

You need to wrap your if statement in a loop as currently you are only checking the first line of the file:

     while(inputFile.hasNext()) {
         if (inputFile.nextLine().equalsIgnoreCase(letter))    {                                

             count++;          // add letter occurrence

             total += count;   // add the letter occurrence to the total
         }
     }

Also you can replace:

count++;
total+= count;

with just

total++;