File Letter Counter

Write a program that asks the user to enter the name of a file, and then asks the user to enter a character. The program should count and display the number of times that the specified character appears in the file. Use Notepad or another text editor to create a sample file that can be used to test the program.

The solution code is written in Python.

fileName = input ("Enter file name: ") target = input ("Enter target character: ") with open (fileName, "r") as reader: content = reader. read () print (content. count (target))

Explanation:

Firstly, use input () function to prompt user for a file name. (Line 1)

Next, we use input () function again to prompt user input a target character (Line 2)

Create a reader object and user read () method to copy entire texts from to the variable content (Line 4 - 5).

At last we can get the number of times the specified character appears in the file using the Python string built-in method count () (Line 6)