Queues - Reading And Counting

Here's what I'm trying to do:

Complete the body of the following method. Use a CharQueue to store the input line as it is being read. The parameter is an EasyReader from Appendix B of the text. Use the method in.charInput( ) to read and return the next character of the EasyReader, and use in.isEOLN( ) to determine whether the next input character is the end-of-line.

public static int counter(EasyReader in)
// Precondition: There is a line of input waiting to be read from in.
// Postcondition: A line of input has been read from in, up to but not
// including the newline character. The return value of the method
// is the number of times that the LAST character of the line appeared
// somewhere in this line.

[EXAMPLE Input: ABBXDXXZX - The value returned by counter would be 4 for this input since there are 4 X's in the input line.]

***When I look at this I understand that I'm being asked to finish the method, that I have 1 input, which is an "EasyReader" object called in and that I use a CharQueue object along with the method isEOLN( ) to grab characters from in while looking for an end of line and then sticking the values in the queue and then I can go through the queue and figure out the number of times that last character shows up in the queue. I just am at a loss on the "how".