Question

Lab Description Take a string and remove all occurrences of the word chicken and count how many chickens were removed. Keep in mind that removing a chicken might show a previously hidden chicken. You may find substring and indexof useful. achickchikene removing the 1st chicken would leave achicken behind achisken - removing the 2d chicken would leave a behind Sample Data itatfun itatchickenfun Files Needed: RecursionFunTwo.Java Recursion234Runner. java chickenbouncetheballchicken Sample Output 3

Answer 1

public class RecursionFunTwo {

    public static int countChickens(String word) {
        if (word.isEmpty()) {
            return 0;
        } else {
            int count = countChickens(word.substring(1));
            if (word.startsWith("chicken")) {
                ++count;
            }
            return count;
        }
    }
}