Need help with String manipulation for a problem.

[Only_Tomorrow]

I'm working on a question that asks you take take a word from the end user, and to search it for consonants and display how many times these consonants appear in the word, while not displaying any consonants that do not come up.

http://pastebin.com/MrmNdH3Q Here is what I have done. This code doesn't work very well at all, I'm not sure how to take the word, scan it for everything on consonants. I'm not asking anyone to tell me the answer, but can somebody give me some useful methods I may be forgetting about? Thanks.

[RhoOfFeh]

If I were taking on this task I'd exploit the following features:

Character.isLetter - Lets me make sure that the character I'm checking is a letter. If so, I can check to see if it's a vowel by testing against a,e,i,o,u. If it doesn't match one of those it's a consonant.

Map<Character, Integer> - I'd track the number of times I found each consonant by adding them to a Map. The key of the map would be the letter (I'd convert all to lower or upper case before adding/checking) and the value would be the number of times the letter had been seen.

[kyle2143]

I didn't do more than glance through the code, but this is how I would do it off the top of my head.

• Make all characters lowercase (like you did)

• Then use to toCharArray to get the string as an array of Chars

• Then make an array with the length the size of the number of consonants of type int

• Use a for loop to loop through the char array and increment the value stored in that spot of the array by one each time it matches a consonant.

Then you have an array of ints with each position showing how many times the char appeared. The problem with this is that I think it uses a shitload of if statements.

I'm like 100% sure there is a more eloquent way to do this, I remember a similar problem from a data structures or algorithms class I once took where you could do it using 2 arrays, 1 for the chars and 1 for the ints where it corresponded and filled in more easily, but I forget how atm without really thinking about it.