Assignment 86

Code

///Matthew Hughs
///5th period
///Letter
///4/13/2016

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Letter
{
	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++ )
            //i must be less than message length and not equal to because we took one away from meggage. So therefore it can never truly equal the last number because we are supposed to be one behind it.
		{
			System.out.println("\t" + i + " - '" + message.charAt(i) + "'");
		}

		int a_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')
			{
				a_count++;
			}
		}

		System.out.println("\nYour message contains " + a_count + " vowels. Isn't that interesting?");

	}
}
    

Picture of the output