Programming Discussion Thread

[NaturalViolence]

I keep thinking that there must be something that I'm missing because that seems pretty easy.

Quote:I need a method which puts the frequency of each character in the alphabet as a separate entry into an array

So you want an array with 52 elements for each alphabetical character (upper and lower) with each element holding the number of times that character appears in the file correct?

Just make a for loop that runs 52 times and increments to the next letter each time. Then within that for loop have another for loop that goes through every character, checks to see if it matches the currently set character using an if statement, and if it does += 1 to the counter, then when it's done write the counter to the current array element. The outer loop should then pop to the next letter and the next array element.