Word counting program - new to strings

Question

Im trying to write a program that will tell me how many times the word "rabbit" appears in a text file. This is what I ahve so far and I am not sure if it is correct. I get a cannot find symbol
symbol : method indexOf(java.lang.String) error when I compile.
import java.util.Scanner;       
import java.io.File;            
import java.lang.String;
public class Rabbitcount
  public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception  // new: throws Exception, copy and paste for now
    File f = new File("rabbit.txt");
    Scanner input = new Scanner(f);
  while (true) {
  int x = indexOf("rabbit");
    System.out.println("There are " + x + " occurences of rabbit in the text.");
// Close the file
    input.close();  
} Any help is appreciated
Edited by: euchresucks on Nov 3, 2008 2:23 PM

Answer 1

indexOf() is a String method. If you were going to use that, you would have to load the file's contents into a String and call indexOf() on that String. You would also need to use the two-argument form of indexOf() so you could start each search at the point where the last match ended.
But you don't need to do any of that. You've already a perfectly good Scanner there; use it to do the searching. Hint: the name of method you need does not start with the word "next".