Could I get some help with this data structure code fragment used to count the # of occurrences of a specific target integer in an array?

int i;

int answer = 0;

for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++)

if (data[i] == target)

answer++;

The answer, of course, is the # of times the target is found in the array. Rewrite the code so that it works correctly when the data array is an array of objects and target is a non-null reference to an object with an equals method.