java - Count letter occurrences in strings into int array of 26
<p>I need to take multiple lines of text and count the occurrences of each letter in every line. The last line must end in a period. I'm asked to make an int array of length 26 where <code>arrayName[0] = number of a's</code>, <code>arrayName[1] = number of b's</code>, etc and that letter case needs to be ignored. I'm having trouble checking the occurrences of each letter and defining the indexed variables with the correct number of occurrences. My code so far:</p>

<pre><code>import java.util.Scanner;

public class LetterCounter 
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

    String[] textBlock = new String[10];

    System.out.println("Enter text.");
    int index;
    //Allows me to type in something for all "lines" of text until I end one with a period.
    for(index = 0; index &lt; textBlock.length; index++)
    {
        textBlock[index] = input.nextLine();

        if(textBlock[index].contains("."))
        {
            System.out.println("Period found");
            break;
        }
    }
    //Outputs what the user printed except for the lines not typed in (they return null).
    System.out.println("Text input by user:");
    for(index = 0; index &lt; textBlock.length; index++)
    {
        if(textBlock[index] != null)
        {
            System.out.println(textBlock[index]);
        }
    }
    //int array
    int[] occurrences = new int[26];

    //used to turn letter into number
    char letter = 'a' - 49;
    char letter2 = 'b' - 49;
    char letter3 = 'c' - 49;

    //checks that numbers are correct (return "0" for a, "1" for b, and "2" for c)
    System.out.println("Number value of a: " + letter);
    System.out.println("Number value of b: " + letter2);
    System.out.println("Number value of c: " + letter3);

}// End of main
}//End of program
</code></pre>