Strings manipulation problem

Im having trouble writing a code related to strings. I am new to Java and programming it self. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Im trying to figure out how i can write the code that ask the user for input for example: CANADA, OTTAWA, 200

the output is: Country: Canada
Capital City: Ottawa
Population: 200 million

thanks in advance :)

Look up scanner api, and you want to create one and use it for the whole problem. Thats really all you need to know besides basics on storing variables and printing.

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import java.util.Scanner;


public class splitString {
public static void main(String args[]){
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Input country, its capital city and amount of population\nin format country, city, amount: ");
String temp[] = scanner.nextLine().split(",");
String country = temp[0];
String city = temp[1];
int population = Integer.parseInt(temp[2].trim());
System.out.println("Country: "+country+"\nCapital city: "+city+"\nPopulation: "+population);
}
}

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this is one example how it can be done.

Is it possible to get this done using indexOf and substring methods?

ruuhkis, that's not an example of how it's done, that is called spoonfeeding him the answer. Please help him out without giving him the code.

Why would you want to use indexOf? You can do it with substring, however its more complicated then it needs to be. You could get 1 string is the input and loop through the string , concatenating the substrings to a new string up until "," are found.

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class countrycappop {


public static void main(String[] args) {

String information = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Country name, capital, and population: ");
int comma = information.indexOf(",");
int space = information.indexOf(" ");
String country = information.substring(0, comma);
String capital = information.substring(space, comma);
System.out.println("Country: "+country+"\nCapital city: "+capital+"");

this is what i got so far, I cant get the capital city from the string :/

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.lang.String;

public class countrycappop {


public static void main(String[] args) {

String information = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Country name, capital, and population: ");
int comma = information.indexOf(",");
int comma2= information.indexOf(",", comma + 1);


String country = information.substring(0, comma);
String city = information.substring(comma+1, comma2);
String population = information.substring(comma2+1);



System.out.println("Country: "+country+"\nCapital city: "+city+"\nPopulation: "+population+" Million");

Okay i figured out how i can extract the country name, capital and population.

What i need help is: If a user inputs CANADA, how can i change that to Canada(the first letter stays capital all the others stay lower case). much help appreciated thanks.

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Originally Posted by dienesh77

If a user inputs CANADA, how can i change that to Canada(the first letter stays capital all the others stay lower case).

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Use the substring method of Strings and get the letters from 1st index till the end of String. Convert it to lowercase and concatenate it back to the charAt 0 index.

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ops my bad i figured this one out already. :)

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Originally Posted by dienesh77

ops my bad i figured this one out already. :)

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Good to know that. Mark the thread as SOLVED then.

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solved thank you

Not like that.

Go to Thread Tools -> Mark this thread as solved.

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