Here you can find the source of countChars(String string, char c)
public static final int countChars(String string, char c)
//package com.java2s; /*// w w w. j a v a 2s . c om Copyright 2009 Semantic Discovery, Inc. (www.semanticdiscovery.com) This file is part of the Semantic Discovery Toolkit. The Semantic Discovery Toolkit is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The Semantic Discovery Toolkit is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with The Semantic Discovery Toolkit. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ public class Main { /** * Count the number of occurrences of the character in the string. */ public static final int countChars(String string, char c) { int result = 0; int ppos = string.indexOf(c); while (ppos >= 0) { ++result; ppos = string.indexOf(c, ppos + 1); } return result; } }