what to change so it'll work

[bold hare]

im trying to check how many "a" in the array and i cant equal the strings

[bronze igloo]

<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

[bold hare]

please

[inland compass]

try .equals

word is a String, cannot do == , as the error is saying

[bold hare]

not working

i tried before

[flint umbra]

charAt returns a char

you cant compare a char to a String like that

[bold hare]

oh

so how

[flint umbra]

String letter should probably be char letter

but if thats not possible, just use letter.charAt(0)

so ... == letter.charAt(0)

[bold hare]

but how

i need to check if theres a

[nova trench]

First of all Strings are arrays of char so you can reference to them without using charAt, just do myStr[index]
Then as dioxin said you can't compare chars to string, you have to compare chars with chars

char f = 'a'
char s = 'a'
if(f == s)
  // this will work

[bold hare]

its print nothing

[inland compass]

whats in the array btw ? words or letters ?

[bold hare]

it shoud print 4

words

[inland compass]

right , there a 2 approaches then , either count all the hits u need, or just replace the non matches and count the lenght

[nova trench]

it prints nothing because you're printing nothing

[bold hare]

i mean return

[nova trench]

U call the function but you do nothing with the value that it returns

[bold hare]

im tryuing to return how many times a apperd

[nova trench]

Yes, we got it
U have your function, which returns an int, this int is equals to how many letters it finds in the words it gets in the array when it is called, but this value that the function returns needs to be stored somewhere and then you can print it

[bold hare]

so what should i do

[nova trench]

Functions can either return void or return something, when it returns void you will just call it, it will be executed and then it will automatically returns null. When it returns something, that something must be stored into a variable

public static int sum(int a, int b) {
  return a+b;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
  int abSum = sum(3, 9);
}

When the function is called, it sums the numbers and they are stored in abSum variable

[bronze igloo]

Detected code, here are some useful tools:

[bold hare]

but i return sum where i stored how many times a appare

[inland compass]

(those are example Tvrsier is showing )

[flint umbra]

you cant use a string as an array

not in java

in c, sure

in java, you have no access the to underlying array

gotta use charAt to access characters

[worthy bison]

Actually, Strings in java are not even related to arrays

[flint umbra]

well its backed by an array, and there's toCharArray()

although theres nothing forcing String to use an array

[worthy bison]

Except it's not backed by a char[]
My point is that, as a java fashion, String encapsulate whatever is inside, so don't assume everything and use it like a regular class

[flint umbra]

i didnt say it was. it used to be, until it was changed to byte[]

still an array

why are you nit picking

ArrayList also encapsulates everything inside. could say "ArrayList are not related to arrays" using that premise

[worthy bison]

You are nitpicking

My point is that, as a java fashion, String encapsulate whatever is inside, so don't assume everything and use it like a regular class

[flint umbra]

yes, but that wasnt the point. the point was they wanted to interface with String as one would in C

i was just saying its not possible, although you could use charAt

[karmic fjord]

A string is a Sequence of Char, so a CharSequence