Help! Please

I'm trying to write a program to count the number of each letter of the alphabet and count the words. I have the word count but don't know how to start my letter counts.
thanks in advance for your help...

Here is what i have so far:

# include <iostream.h>
# include "string.h"

void alphabet( char [] ); //functions prototype

int main()
{
int count = 0;
char string[256];

cout <<"Please enter 1 line of text from the keyboard. \n";
cout <<"Please hit enter when you are done.\n\n";
cin.getline(string, 256, '\n'); //The user input goes into string
int countA = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
{
if (string[i] == 'a' || 'A')
countA++;
else
}
cout <<"A " << countA << "\n";


char *tokenPtr;
tokenPtr = strtok( string, " " );

while ( tokenPtr != NULL )/* The following code counts the words or tokens in a sentence.*/
{
tokenPtr = strtok( NULL, " " );
count = count + 1;
}//end while ( tokenPtr != NULL )

cout << "Word Count: " << count;

return 0;
}//end int main ()

You could create a 26 element array 0-a 25-z, and loop through your line incremeting the [theletter-a] element for each letter.

this will get you started

Code:

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#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int Occurences( char cAlpha, char* szString );

int main()
{

        char szString[ 256 ];
        strcpy( szString, "THis is a very long STRING and all characters WILL BE counted" );

        char cAlpha = 'A';
        for( int i = 0; i < 26;i++ )
        {
                cout <<  cAlpha << " occurs " << Occurences( cAlpha , szString )
                        << " times in the string  \"" << szString << "\""<< endl;
                cAlpha++; // a + 1 = b and so on
        }

        return 0;
} // end

int Occurences( char cAlpha, char* szString )
{
        // NULL pointer bad ju-ju
        if( NULL == szString )
        {
                return 0;
        }

        int i = 0;
        int nCount = 0;
        do
        {
                //an Uppercase character + 32 is the lowercase of the character
                //here we test for both.. more info on this look at an acii code chart
                if( cAlpha == szString[ i ] || ( cAlpha + 32 ) == szString[ i ] )
                        nCount++;
                i++;
        }
        while( NULL != szString[ i ] );

        return nCount;

}

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I still don't get it, i want it so the user can enter a line of text.