Assignment #86 and A Letter At A Time

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                        /// Name: Graham Pollock
                        /// Period: 5
                        /// Program Name: A Letter At a Time
                        /// File Name: ALetterAtATime.java
                        /// Date Finished: 02/15/2016/

    import java.util.Scanner;
        
        public class ALetterAtATime
        {
        	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++ )
        		{
        			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 vowel " + a_count + " times. Isn't that interesting?");
        
        	}
        }
        ///if you chaange the for loop tobe while i <= string length the last thing does not have a character associated with it so there is a problem displayed in powershell
        ///the length(box) is 2, and x would be in the 2nd position
        ///because the length count starts at zero instead of 1 so if its 13 characters long it needs to stop at position 12

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