java help

[jabborwoc]

Java help open user spec file , count user spec character,

Code: Java [Select]

1. import java.util.Scanner;
2. import java.io.*;
3. public class progChal6
4.  {
5.    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
6.    {
7.      
8.      //needed for scanner class
9.       Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in);
10.       String filename;   // file name
11.       int charCount = 0;
12.      
13.       // get users filename
14.       System.out.print("Enter the file name:  ");
15.       filename = kb.nextLine();
16.       Scanner inputFile = new Scanner(filename);
17.       // get users character
18.       System.out.print("Please enter a character: ");
19.       char userChar = kb.nextLine().charAt(0);
20.       // tell the user what the program does
21.       System.out.println("\n****This program will return how many times" +
22.                           " the character you entered showed up in" +
23.                           " the string you entered.****");
24.                      
25.       while(inputFile.hasNext()) ;
26.       {
27.                (filename.charAt() == userChar);
28.                   {
29.                   charCount++;
30.                   }
31.       }
32.       System.out.println("\nThe specified character " +"\"" + userChar +
33.                           "\" is inside the string " + filename +
34.                           " " + charCount +   " times.\n");            
35.     inputFile.close();
36.     }
37. }

[jabborwoc]

it just needs to count the number of times a specified letter occurs in a specified file

[Ath]

What's the result you are getting now?

If you added an if before the first bracket on line 27 there would at least be a comparison in the loop.

[mouser]

i think he got it solved in irc.

[hamradio]

The following url helped him if I remember correctly...

http://www.dreaminco...isplays-wrong-count/