Hi Friend,

Try the following code:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class CountCharacters extends JFrame{
JLabel l1,l2;
JTextField text;
JTextArea area;
JScrollPane pane;
JPanel panel;
JButton button;

CountCharacters(){
l1=new JLabel("Enter text: ");
l2=new JLabel("Charcter to Search: ");
text=new JTextField(10);
area=new JTextArea(3,4);
pane=new JScrollPane(area);
panel=new JPanel(new GridLayout(3,2));
button=new JButton("Search");
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
String st=area.getText();
char searchedChar=text.getText().charAt(0);
count(searchedChar,st);

}
});
panel.add(l1);
panel.add(pane);
panel.add(l2);
panel.add(text);
panel.add(button);
add(panel);
setVisible(true);
pack();
}
public int count(char c, String str) {
if (str == null) return 0;
int cnt = 0;
for (int i = 0;; cnt++) {
if ((i = str.indexOf(c,i)+1) == 0) break;
}
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Character "+c+" occurs "+cnt+" times");
return cnt;
}
public static void main(String[]args){
CountCharacters chars=new CountCharacters();
}

}

Thanks