From 07ad26f686a265752908890863bc3809c6082951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Khotinskiy <dkmshotinskiy@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 23:21:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update Exercise_18_17.java

The prompt has been altered and the code was corrected in order to include the last character of the string in the character array.
---
 .../Exercise_18_17/Exercise_18_17.java        | 41 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Exercise_18/Exercise_18_17/Exercise_18_17.java b/Exercise_18/Exercise_18_17/Exercise_18_17.java
index 9de58f8d..9332ad53 100644
--- a/Exercise_18/Exercise_18_17/Exercise_18_17.java
+++ b/Exercise_18/Exercise_18_17/Exercise_18_17.java
@@ -10,42 +10,51 @@
 * Write a test program that prompts the user to enter a list of characters in    *
 * one line, and a character, and displays the number of occurrences of the       * 
 * character in the list.                                                         *
+*                                                                                *
+* Sample Run                                                                     *
+* Enter a string: Welcome to Java                                                *
+* Enter a character: e                                                           *
+* e appears 2 times                                                              *
 *********************************************************************************/
 import java.util.Scanner;
 
 public class Exercise_18_17 {
-	/** Main method */
+	// Main method
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
 		// Create a Scanner
 		Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
 
-		// Prompt the user to enter a list of characters
-		System.out.print("Enter a list of characters in one line: ");
+		// Prompt the user to enter a string
+		System.out.print("Enter a string: ");
 		String str = input.nextLine();
-		char[] chars = new char[str.length() - 1];
-		for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++)
+		
+		// Convert string into array of characters
+		char[] chars = new char[str.length()];
+		for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
 			chars[i] = str.charAt(i);
-		char ch = str.charAt(str.length() - 1);
+		}
+
+		// Prompt the user to enter a character
+		System.out.print("Enter a character: ");
+		char ch = input.next().charAt(0);
 
 		// Display the number of occurrences of the character
-		System.out.println("The character \"" + ch + "\" occurs " 
-			+ count(chars, ch) + " times in the list \"" + 
-			str.substring(0, str.length() - 1) + "\".");
+		System.out.print(ch + " appears " + count(chars, ch) + " times");
 	}
 
-	/** Method counts the occurrences of a 
-	  * specified character in an array */
+	// Method counts the occurrences of a character in an array
 	public static int count(char[] chars, char ch) {
 		return count(chars, ch, chars.length - 1);
 	}
 
-	/** Recursive helper method */
+	// Recursive helper method
 	public static int count(char[] chars, char ch, int high) {
-		if (high < 0) // Base case
+		if (high < 0) { // Base case
 			return 0;
-		else if (chars[high] == ch) 
+		} else if (chars[high] == ch) {
 			return 1 + count(chars, ch, high - 1); // Recursive call
-		else
+		} else {
 			return count(chars, ch, high - 1); // Recursive call
+		}
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}