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Gee this sounds like a classic home work problem which you would be well
advised to do yourself. You should scan the line a character at a time using
the Character class as a wrapper. There are nice methods in this class which
will be useful.
Michael Little <hypercom@c031.aone.net.au> wrote in message
news:qfbw3.7309$O_1.50063@ozemail.com.au...
> 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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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!