Assignment #86 and Letter at a Time
Code
/// Name: Brendan Baird
/// Period: 6
/// Program Name: Letter at a Time
/// File Name: LetterAtATime.java
/// Date Finished: 12/10/2015
/// changing < to <= causes an error because position is zero-based and length begins counting at 1
/// the length of "box" is 3 but the position of "x" is 2
/// the for loop ends one digit after the the line if <= is used
import java.util.Scanner;
public class LetterAtATime
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("What is your message? ");
String message = kb.nextLine();
System.out.println("\nYour message is " + message.length() + " characters long.");
System.out.println("The first character is at position 0 and is '" + message.charAt(0) + "'.");
int lastpos = message.length() - 1;
System.out.println("The last character is at position " + lastpos + " and is '" + message.charAt(lastpos) + "'.");
System.out.println("\nHere are all the characters, one at a time:\n");
for ( int i=0; i < message.length(); i++ )
{
System.out.println("\t" + i + " - '" + message.charAt(i) + "'");
}
int vowel_count = 0;
for ( int i=0; i < message.length(); i++ )
{
char letter = message.charAt(i);
if ( letter == 'a' || letter == 'A' || letter == 'e' || letter == 'E' || letter == 'i' || letter == 'I' || letter == 'o' || letter == 'O' || letter == 'u' || letter == 'U')
{
vowel_count++;
}
}
System.out.println("\nYour message contains " + vowel_count + " vowels. Isn't that interesting?");
}
}
Picture of the output