finding consonants and vowels?!

Alex,

If you are truly this lost already, then you must have missed class, lectures, or have not read the required material. dcminter gave you a very good link to get you started, but if you are not willing to help yourself understand, then neither are we. Deadline or not, you still have to learn the very basics before it will make any sense and that is something we cannot do for you.

Les

morgalra at 2007-7-14 21:45:30 >

public class LetterCounter extends Thread

{

public void run()

{

String sentence = (Keyboard.readString()).toUpperCase();

int spaceCnt = 0, vowelCnt = 0, conCnt = 0;

for(int i=0;i< sentence.length();i++)

{

char c = sentence.charAt(i);

int n = Character.getNumericValue(c);

if (Character.isLetter(c))

{

if (n == 10 || n == 14 || n == 18 || n == 24 || n == 30)

vowelCnt++;

else

conCnt++;

}else if(Character.isWhitespace(c))

spaceCnt++;

}

System.out.println("Vowels: " + vowelCnt + "\nConsonants: " + conCnt + "\nSpaces: " + spaceCnt);

}

public static void main(String [] args)//starting point for Java progras

{

Thread t = new LetterCounter();

t.start();

}

}

Let me know how it works out.

billyChilla at 2007-7-14 21:45:30 >

thanks billy...and no i didnt copy the code because i also have to look for commas, but i just wanted to learn how to approach it. I learned a lot more by looking at this example, asking myself what this line of code meant, looked it up, and continued. I think learning by example is a great way to approach programming. Plus my programming teacher has to teach a business systems and tech class, programming 1 and 2 at the same time while she is teaching me (programming ap)

thanks a lot billy

o yeah and keyboard class is sort of a classroom package (cs1 package i believe) that hides a lot of the I/O method stuff to make it easy for you to get data from a client.

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AlexGM16

AlexGM16a at 2007-7-14 21:45:30 >

aha i get it! Using the for loop it gets the values for every character entered in the string. Then it does an if statement to check it its a vowel, otherwise its a consonant. Then the isWhitespace counts for spaces.

One question where do i go to find the list of values for each string entered by a keyboard?

AlexGM16a at 2007-7-14 21:45:30 >

> One question where do i go to find the list of values for each string entered by a keyboard?

If you're using the Keyboard class (download zip file from http://duke.csc.villanova.edu/jss/keyboard.html),

you can use its readWord() method.

If you have Java 5.0, the Scanner class has useDelimeter() and next() methods.

ValentineSmitha at 2007-7-21 10:18:07 >