Strings

[Nickesha Lindsay]

Hello,
I would like to know how do I go about getting specified letter from a word, then printing out how many times that letter shows up in the word.
Example:
String word = "Alabama";
...............
System.out.println ("Letters in word: " + word);
I want to get only the letter 'a' from the word, so the result must print out the number "4", since there are 3 letters in the word 'Alabama'.
Could someone please give me some examples and how to start this program off?
Are there any String/Character classes I should be aware of to do this and if so, which ones?
Thank you

[Brian Pipa]

Take a look at the Javadocs for String. Lots of good stuff there like:
.length()
.charAt()
.toLowerCase() (if you're not worried about case)
Try writing a for loop using the length() and take a look at each character with charAt()
That should get you started.
Brian