Assignemnt #86 and LetterAtATime

Code

  /// name: Leila Ordukhani
  /// period: 6
  /// program name: Seventy-Fourth Program
  /// file name: Letter.java
  /// date finished: 2/16/16
  
    import java.util.Scanner;

public class Letter
{
	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' )
			{
				a_count++;
			}
		}

		System.out.println("\nYour message contains the letter 'a' " + a_count + " times. Isn't that interesting?");

	}
}

Picture of the output