Counting letters in a user inputted string

[kxjakkk]

I'm attempting to make a small program that when a user inputs a string, it counts all the letters.

Here's what I've got so far:

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeSet;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class LetterTypeCount 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // create HashMap to store String keys and Integer values
        Map<String, Integer> myMap = new HashMap<>();

        createMap(myMap); // create map based on user input
        displayMap(myMap); // display map content
    }

    // create map from user input
    private static void createMap(Map<String, Integer> map)
    {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); // create scanner
        System.out.println("Enter a string:"); // prompt for user input
        String input = scanner.nextLine();

        // tokenize the input
        String[] tokens = input.split(" ");

        // processing input text
        for (String token : tokens)
        {
            String letter = token.toLowerCase(); // get lowercase word

            // if the map contains the letter
            if (map.containsKey(letter)) // is letter in map
            {
                int count = map.get(letter); // get current count
                map.put(letter, count + 1); // increment count
            }
            else
                map.put(letter, 1); // add new letter with a count of 1 to map
        }
    }

    // display map content
    private static void displayMap(Map<String, Integer> map)
    {
        Set<String> keys = map.keySet(); // get keys

        // sort keys
        TreeSet<String> sortedKeys = new TreeSet<>(keys);

        System.out.printf("%nMap contains:%nKey\t\tValue%n");

        // generate output for each key in map
        for (String key : sortedKeys)
            System.out.printf("%-10s%10s%n", key, map.get(key));
        System.out.printf("%nsize: %d%nisEmpty: %b%n",
                map.size(), map.isEmpty());
    }
} // end class LetterTypeCount

I've gotten it to count words, but I'm unsure how to make it count the actual letters of each word..
Help would be apppreciated.

[JamesCherrill]

It's just like counting words, except simpler. Instead of splitting the String into words, you just take each char from the String and count those.

[kxjakkk]

So for line 25, would I change that to have something to do with char?

[JamesCherrill]

You can use String's charAt method to get individual chars. Wrap that in a simple loop to get all the chars one at a time.