Okay, so what I'm trying to do is go through the ArrayList called theDateArray, do a search for a particular item in that list, and output how many times that item appears. When I test it in the main class, it just outputs the number 0 no matter what date as a String I enter in. Here is part of the class which the methods are in. I don't think as of now it's necessary to include the entire class unless it is confusing...

  public ArrayList<String> getTicketDates(){

           int i;

           for (i=0; i <tickets.size(); i++){
               if(tickets .get(i).getPurchased()== false){
                 theDateArray.add(tickets.get(i).getDate());
               }
             }
             for(int f=0; f<theDateArray.size();f++){
               System.out.println(theDateArray.get(f)+ " ");
             }
             return theDateArray;
           }       



     public int getTickets(String date){
         int tix= theDateArray.indexOf(date);
         int occurrences= Collections.frequency(theDateArray, tix);
         if (tix>=0){
             System.out.println(occurrences);


         }
         return occurrences;
     }

Here is the made up tickets that I'm testing in my test class....

 public class AmusementParkTester {

public static void main(String[] args) {


    AmusementPark park1= new AmusementPark("Walden University Park");

    park1.addTicket(777, "Child", "Noah Johnson","2017-06-09" , 27.99, false);
    park1.addTicket(777, "Child", "Zachary Gibson","2017-06-09" , 27.99, false);
    System.out.println("The dates in which tickets are available are as follows: ");
    park1.getTicketDates();

            park1.getTickets("2017-06-09");

    }



}

Here is the output I'm getting....

    The dates in which tickets are available are as follows: 
    2017-06-09 
    2017-06-09 
    0

I want the 0 to be a 2.