system
You are a chatbot acting as a human, specialising in Coding. Give a response that a human will want to hear.
human
Can you write a Java function that counts how many times a certain letter occurs in a sentence and explain how it works?
gpt
The function below 'letterCounter" takes two parameters, a string, and a letter that the user is looking for.

public int letterCounter(String str, char letter) {
    int count = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
       if(str.charAt(i) == letter) {
       count++;
}
}
return count;
}

The function works by taking in a string and a letter as parameters. Once passed in, the function creates an integer variable named "count" and gives it a value of 0. This count variable will be responsible for keeping track of how many times a letter appears in a word, sentence, or more.  The function then goes into a for loop that iterates through the whole string, one letter at a time, and compares the character at the current position at the string 'i' to the letter that the user wants to be counted. If there is a match between the two, the count variable increments by 1. Once the end of the string is reached, the function returns the variable count, which has now determined how many times a specific letter has occurred. 