Basic String Help

[JazzyJ]

Hello Everyone!

I am currently working on a lab for APCS and needed some guidance on Strings.

The lab asks for a license plate to be inputed by the user, and I am asked to add up the ASCII values of the letter part of the plate to the number part.

Here is what I have so far:

System.out.print("Please enter the 'AAA' of your license plate: " );
plate1 = in.next();
System.out.print("Please enter the '###' of your license plate: ");
plate2 = in.nextInt();
for (int i=0; i < plate1.length(); i++)
{
char c = plate1.charAt(i);
int j = (int) c;
total1 += c;
}
total2 = total1+plate2;

Obviously this is not my entire code, however I was wondering how I could make the user simply input the license plate in one line. I tried using the substring method, but got no luck.

Basically I need assistance on taking the AAA value of the plate, finding the ASCII and adding it to the ###. Instead of taking the ASCII of the ### portion too. So I would like to be able to have the user enter AAA### on one line.

Thanks for the help!

[Tolls]

Why do you need them split?
Surely you can simply ask the user to enter their license plate number, and use nextLine() to read it in?