count number of occurrences of character in string

1>>> sentence = 'Mary had a little lamb'
2>>> sentence.count('a')
34
4

1public class CountStringOccurence {
2public static void main(String[] args) {
3
4int count= countOccurences("aaassssddadad",'s');
5System.out.println(count);
6
7}
8
9private static int countOccurences(String word, char character){
10  
11  int count = 0;
12  for(int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++){
13    
14    if(word.chartAt(i) == character){
15      
16      count++; } 
17                 }
18      return count;
19}
20}
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22

1public class CountStringOccurence {
2public static void main(String[] args) {
3
4int count= countOccurences("aaassssddadad",'s');
5System.out.println(count);
6
7}
8
9private static int countOccurences(String word, char character){
10  
11  int count = 0;
12  for(int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++){
13    
14    if(word.chartAt(i) == character){
15      
16      count++; } 
17                 }
18      return count;
19}
20}

1#use the built in function len()
2
3len("hello")
4
5#or you can count the characters in a string variable
6
7a = "word"
8len(a)