Count the occurrences of a letter in a string

Question

I am trying to write a for loop in Java that will count the occurrences of a letter in a string. The user will enter the letter to count and the string in which to search. This

Answer 1

No need to loop:

    String sentence = "abcabcabcd";
    String letter = "b";
    int numOfOccurences = sentence.length() - 
                          sentence.replaceAll(letter, "").length();
    System.out.println("numOfOccurences = "+numOfOccurences);

OUTPUT:

numOfOccurences = 3