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Article #1086Re: Help, newbie..question concerning character analysis of an input text string
From: VrLife
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00
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you should try looking into StringTokenizer from java.util.StringTokenizer vin On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:41:04 +1000, "Michael Little" <hypercom@c031.aone.net.au> wrote: >Hello, > I was wondering if some-one could help me, I am trying to write a short >program to get one sentence as a command line argument and it must return >the following: >1. The number of blank characters in the entire sentence >2. The number of words in the entire sentence >3. The number of non-blank characters in the entire sentence >4. The average number of characters per word >5. The length of the longest word( in characters) >6. The length of the sentence( in words) >7. The number of capital and lowercase characters >8. The number of vowels and consonants. >The input sentence can contain letters and digits, with one or more special >characters separating each word in the sentence, and once entered the >program should print the above values. Any suggests as how to best handle >this problem? > >I am also not sure how to determine if a character is upper or lower case: >do they belong to different character ranges? > >Any help appreciated!
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