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

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("somefile.txt"));
    int ch;
    char charToSearch='a';
    int counter=0;
    while((ch=reader.read()) != -1) {
        if(charToSearch == (char)ch) {
            counter++;
        }
    };
    reader.close();

    System.out.println(counter);

Is this of any help?