Creating a return statement

I'm trying to create a return statement with all of my conditions, but I cannot figure out how to do it properly.

My plan is that once a condition is met, the method will return that condition.

For example:

if the "o" matches the condition, the method would have to return "o"

Here's my code.

public Actor createActor(char c)throws UnknownActorException

{

if(c != ('*'))

thrownew UnknownActorException("Cannot be an asterisk");

if(c != (' '))

thrownew UnknownActorException("Cannot have a space");

if(c != ('-'))

thrownew UnknownActorException("Cannot have a space");

if(c != ('o'))

thrownew UnknownActorException("Cannot have a space");

}

[1503 byte] By [vopoa] at [2007-11-26 22:22:29]