Question

I'm stuck on this Java exercise problem and don't know how to organize my code with proper formatting and it's not helping that I'm pretty terrible at logic. I can't figure out how to return the number of spaces to be displayed in the main method.

Answer 1

In your "count spaces method" before the for loop, you want to declare an int variable (let's call it spc)

then, each time you find that charat, spc++.

also, the string must be declared in the main method, not the spaces count method.

The actual code:

public class CountSpaces{

public static void main(String[] args){

String instring = "(your quote here)";

int spaces = calculateSpaces(instring);

System.out.println("The number of spaces is " + spaces);

}

public static int calculateSpaces(String in){

int spc = 0;

for(int i= 0; i<in.length; i++){

if(in.charAt(i)== ' '){

spc++;

}

}

return spc;

}

}

that should be it.  If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.