Reading a file, and counting how many e's there's in it!

Question

Hello everyone!
Well, I'm trying to write a program that'll read a file and count the number of e's in there and print it out.
This is what the Index.txt file contains:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.And this is my source code:
import java.io.*;
public class Appearance{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
     index = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(("Index.txt")));
        while((letter = index.readLine()) != null){
   if(letter.contains("e")){
       eCount++;
  System.out.print(eCount + "\n");
  if(index != null){
      index.close();
   index = null;
private static BufferedReader index = null;
private static String letter = null;
private static int eCount = 0;
}But for some reason when I run it, the output is 4?.. Please tell me why, as I figured that this should work.. :O.

Answer 1

Vimsie wrote:
But for some reason when I run it, the output is 4?.. Please tell me why, as I figured that this should work.. :O.Because you are counting the number of lines that contain one or more 'e's. You don't count the occurances.