Listing the alphabet (beginner)

[SuperOnion]

Hello.
I am currently trying to do an assignment right now and I have no idea if I'm doing it right or not. The assignment is:
Write a JAVA program that uses the ASCII codes and a for loop in a METHOD Alphabet() to display the alphabet in the following format:

UPPERCASE LOWERCASE
A a
B b
C c
. .
. .
. .
Z z


This is all I have so far.

{
    public static void main( String args[] )
   {

                  char upper;
                  char lower; 

                      System.out.printf( "%s%20s\n", "UPPERCASE", "LOWERCASE");
                      for ( upper = 'A';  upper <= 'Z';  upper++ )

                  {
                      System.out.print(upper);
System.out.println();
                  }
                  
                                 

}
}

I don't even think this is correct but I can at least get the first row of uppercase letters down. Can someone help me set up the lowercase letters in the format that I was told to do? Oh and there is a big space between the two rows, just for some reason I can't set up the spaces while posting.
Thanks in advance.

[Fubarable]

The Character class has a method called toLower() that might help. Try printing out Character.toLower(upper) and see what you get. You might even want to use printf from within the for loop to print both upper case, lower case and the space. Best of luck.

[CJSLMAN]

hhhmmm.. it's sorta a step in the right direction... but:

• Your not using ASCII codes
• There's no alphabet() method

So you have some studying to do:

• Here's a link to an ASCII table:

Ascii Table - ASCII character codes and html, octal, hex and decimal chart conversion

• Here's a link to how to define a method in Java:

Defining Methods (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Classes and Objects)

Luck,
CJSL

[Eranga]

Easily you can do this.

        for(int i =0; i < 128; i++) {
            if(Character.isLowerCase((char)i)) {
                System.out.println("value: " + i + " character: " + (char)i);
            }
            if(Character.isUpperCase((char)i)) {
                System.out.println("value: " + i + " character: " + (char)i);
            }
        }