vowels in a string

[Doegon]

Hi
i need help with writing a method that takes in a string of characters and counts the syllables in the string.
the method should not count chacter 'e' if its the last character in the string and by definition a syllable is vowel or a pair of adjacent vowels(a,e,o,i,u),the adjacent vowels count as one.

so my problem is identifying that the two adjacent characters are vowels.how can i tackle this?

thank you.

[chaarmann]

Hi
i need help with writing a method that takes in a string of characters and counts the syllables in the string.
the method should not count chacter 'e' if its the last character in the string and by definition a syllable is vowel or a pair of adjacent vowels(a,e,o,i,u),the adjacent vowels count as one.

so my problem is identifying that the two adjacent characters are vowels.how can i tackle this?

thank you.

You make a function isVovel(char c) which returns true or false.
then you call this function in a loop to test if string.charAt(i) and string.charAt(i + 1) are both vowels.

[Doegon]

sorry for not giving you guys enough info,i'm trying to write a method/function so i don't know if one can write a method in another method,is there any class api that has the function of isVowel that chaarmann described may be it will be beter to call the method. thanks for the idea though

[chaarmann]

sorry for not giving you guys enough info,i'm trying to write a method/function so i don't know if one can write a method in another method,is there any class api that has the function of isVowel that chaarmann described may be it will be beter to call the method. thanks for the idea though

You cannot write a method inside a method. Just write it "in parallel" inside the same class.
There is no class in the standard API that tells you if a character is a vowel. But you can test your self with an if-statement easily

if (char =='a' || char =='e' || ...) return true;

or

if ("aeiou".indexOf(char) != -1) return true; 

or you could use a regular expression:

return String.valueOf(c).matches("[aeiou]");

There are may ways to do it.

[Doegon]

You cannot write a method inside a method. Just write it "in parallel" inside the same class.
There is no class in the standard API that tells you if a character is a vowel. But you can test your self with an if-statement easily

if (char =='a' || char =='e' || ...) return true;

or

if ("aeiou".indexOf(char) != -1) return true; 

or you could use a regular expression:

return String.valueOf(c).matches("[aeiou]");

There are may ways to do it.

Thanks man i will try and see the results, i think i get exactly what you mean.keep it real