Ok , you want something like this:

Class StringProg has the 2 methods you require:
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public class StringProg
{

String s;
int count = 0;

//constructor
public StringProg(String sIn)
{
s = sIn;
}

//method to diplay string
public void displayString()
{
System.out.println ("\nYour String: " + s);
}

//method to find character
public void findChar(char letter)
{

for (int i = 0; i<s.length(); i++)
{
if(s.charAt(i) == letter)
{
count ++;
}
}
System.out.println ("\nYour character " + "\"" + letter
+ "\"" + " appeared " + count + " time(s)");
}

}
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The second class tests the methods from StringProg:

public static void main(String [] args)
{
//the requested letter to find
char letter = 'e';

//create a StringProg object
StringProg t = new StringProg("THE STRING GOES HERE");

//display the string
t.displayString();
//search the string for a letter
t.findChar(letter);


}

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That should help ya. rickste_r!

Hello rickste_r

Thankyou very much for the help. It was very kind of you.

yours,
Hjays

rickste_r,
Don't give out homework for free! They're never going to learn anything if you do it for them. There is nothing wrong with helping them, but DON'T do it for them!
And also, use the [*code] and [/code] tags around your code please (be sure to take off the *).

Thank you.