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

your Scanner class has not moved to the next line after reading the character

letter = in.next().charAt(0);

add another in.nextLine() before reading the input string

    System.out.println("Enter a character for which to search");
    letter = in.next().charAt(0);
    in.nextLine();
    System.out.println("Enter the string to search");
    sentence = in.nextLine();

old thread but hope this helps :)