Counting Vowels and Constonants

[MattN]

First time posting here, however have looked here for resources many times.

I'm trying to create an application that will count the number of vowels and consonants that are typed in into the computer. None of my code is underlined, However my application bugs out partway through. I ran Debugger and everything seems fine untill the point that i bolded. It throws an out of bounds error. Here is my code:

package vowelCons;
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class VowelCons {
 
    public static void main(String args[]){
    
        String input;
        char selection;
        int x = 0;
        char[] a = new char[x];
        
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
        
        System.out.print("Enter a string: ");
        input = keyboard.nextLine();
        
        x = input.length(); 
        
        //Convert from String to Char
        
        for (int p = 0; p < x; p++) {          [B] // This is where it errors out[/B]
            a[p] = input.charAt(p);          [B]  // in  these couple lines here. [/B]
                                                      [B]// It gives me an out of bounds error.[/B] 
        }
    
        
        // Determine amount of Vowels and Cons
        int Vowels = 0;
        int Cons = 0;
        
        for (int i = 0; i < 100 ; i++){
            if (a[i] == 'a' || a[i] == 'e' || a[i] == 'i' || a[i] == 'o' || a[i] == 'u'){
                    Vowels++;
            }else{
                    Cons++;
                }    
            }
        
        
        // Switch case to determine which Menu was Selected and Print corresponding Results
        
        do{
            selection = getMenuSelection();
            
            switch(Character.toLowerCase(selection))
            {
            case 'a' : System.out.println("\nNumber of vowels: " + Vowels);
                break;
            case 'b' : System.out.println("\nNumber of Consonats: " + Cons);
                break;
            case 'c' : System.out.println("\nNumber of vowels: " + Vowels);
                        System.out.println("\nNumber of Consonants: " + Cons);
                break;
            case 'd': System.out.print("Enter a String: ");
                        input = keyboard.nextLine();
                break;
            }
        } while (Character.toLowerCase(selection)!='e');
        
    }
    
    public static char getMenuSelection() {
        String input;
        char selection;
        
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
        
        System.out.println("a) Count the number of vowels in the string.");
        System.out.println("b) Count the number of Consonants in the string.");
        System.out.println("c) Count the number of vowels and consonants in the string.");
        System.out.println("d) Enter anohter string.");
        System.out.println("e) Exit the program.");
        
        input = keyboard.nextLine();
        selection = input.charAt(0);
        
        while(Character.toLowerCase(selection)<'a' || Character.toLowerCase(selection) > 'e')
        {
            System.out.print("Only enter a, b, c, d, or e: ");
            input = keyboard.nextLine();
            selection = input.charAt(0);
        }
        
        return selection;
    }
    
    
}

[ShoeNinja]

You problem seems to be with getting the length of your line. Try printing x before you enter the for loop and print p inside of the for loop so you will know have many times it loops.

Is it possible that the nextLine() method of the Scanner class doesn't work the way that you think it does? I don't deal with Scanners very much so I'm afraid that I'm not to familiar with them and their methods. I could be very wrong.

[revathi17]

From the code you have posted, I see a problem in this line:

char[] a = new char[x];

you have initialized int x=0;, so there is only one element in the character array and thats the reason for out of bound exception.

I changed the above line as

char[] a = new char[100]; and complied. It worked fine.

Thanks,

[MattN]

Thanks a Bunch!

Once i changed it to 100, it worked great. Only problem then, because i did an else, it was counting everything else as a constonant, so i had 96 constonants 4 vowels, etc. So i had to do an Else If, and input every letter. But it works now! Thanks!

Matt