Java String Counter

[TrippW06]

I working on a program to analyze a string and tell the user how may of each char is in the sentence. I have it sorta working but cant fidgure it out. I get a weird last line and my method to remove the "." totally kills the program. I had java several years ago and a friend has asked me to help. Any Ideas?

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class example{
static Scanner console= new Scanner(System.in);
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.print("Please Enter aString ");
System.out.println();
console.useDelimiter("\\n");
String str =console.next();
 
String strClean = str.replaceAll(" ","");
//String strClean1 = strClean.replaceAll(".","");
System.out.println (strClean);
 
char[]third =strClean.toCharArray();
            for(int counter =0;counter<third.length;counter++)
            { char letter= third[counter];
 
                int flage=0;
                for ( int i=0; i<third.length; i++)
                {
                    if (letter==third[i])
 
                        flage++;
 
 
                }
                if(counter==0)
                {
System.out.println("The letter ="+letter+" is repeated "+flage+" # of Times ");
    continue;
                }
                boolean flag=false;
                for(int j=counter-1;j>=0;j--)
                {
                    if(letter==third[j])
                        flag=true;
                }
                if(!flag)
                {
 
System.out.println("The letter ="+letter+" is repeated "+flage+" No of Times ");
 
 
                }
 
            }
    }
 
 
}

[JosAH]

Why don't you use a Map<Character, Integer> and use that for every character
you read from the input?

kind regards,

Jos