Exercise 8.4 Write a method that finds the number of occurrences of a specified

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Exercise 8.4

Write a method that finds the number of occurrences of a specified character in the string using the following header: public static int count(String str, char a).

For example, count("Welcome", 'e') returns 2.

What I'm attempting to do is have the user input a word and also input the letter to check how many times that specific letter occurres. Here is the code below. The bold is the location of the known error that I have. My question is what would I need to do to correct it so that it works properly.

import java.util.*;

public class Occurrence
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter a word: ");
        String str = input.nextLine();
        System.out.print("Enter a letter: ");
        char a = input.nextChar();
        int letterCheck = Occurrence.count(str, a);
        System.out.println("The word was: " + str);
        System.out.println("The letter " + a + " was found this many times: " + letterCheck);
       
    }
    public static int count(String str, char a)
    {
        int count = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)
        {
            if (str.charAt(i) == a)
            {
                count++;
            }
        }
        return count;
    }
}

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import java.util.*;
public class Occurrence
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter a word: ");
        String str = input.nextLine();
        System.out.print("Enter a letter: ");
        char a = input.nextLine().charAt(0);
        int letterCheck = Occurrence.count(str, a);
        System.out.println("The word was: " + str);
        System.out.println("The letter " + a + " was found this many times: " + letterCheck);
      
    }
    public static int count(String str, char a)
    {
        int count = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)
        {
            if (str.charAt(i) == a)
            {
                count++;
            }
        }
        return count;
    }
}

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