// occurrences.cpp: a silly program to count the number of times a character 
//      appears in the input where the target is specified on the command line
//      The default character is a semicolon (a rough count of statements in
//      a C++ program).
// Build with g++ -std=c++14 occurrences.cpp

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int countOf(const char *strp, char target)
{
   if ( strp == nullptr )
      return 0;
   int count = 0;
   for(; *strp; ++strp) // *strp is equivalent to *strp != '\0'
      if ( *strp == target )
         ++count;
   return count;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
   char target = ';';
   if ( argc > 1 && argv[1] != nullptr )
      target = argv[1][0];

   int total_count = 0;
   char line[1000];
   cin >> line;
   while ( cin )
   {
      total_count += countOf(line, target);
      cin >> line;
   }

   cout << "Total count of '" << target << "': " << total_count << endl;
   return 0;
}