Program

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

public class fileLab {
        public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

                //lab in progress
                File file;
                        Scanner fileScanner;
                //names scanner to search "file"
                                file = new File("Cool.txt");
                                fileScanner = new Scanner(file);

                //prompts user to choose a character
                Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
                System.out.println("Choose a charater to search for");
                int userChar = sc.next().charAt(0);

                //count variable for how many times the character appears
                int count = 0;

                //this loop will read each int until the file has no more ints
                while(fileScanner.hasNext()){

                        //this will get the next char in the file
                        int c = fileScanner.findInLine(".").charAt(0);

                        //this makes sure its the same char as the user put in
                        if (c == userChar){
                                count = count + 1;

                        }
                }

                System.out.println("There are "+ count +" of that letter in the file");


        }
}