Need help! (Simple programs...)

[IMtheBESTatJAVA]

I've recently taken up an AP Computer Science class online for Maryland State education at my high school, and was wondering if I could receive help on a few of the projects. Most of them are simple like programs I made in Visual Basic for my first programming class with simple algorithms. There are a lot of projects given at a fast pace, and we do not have any instructor, but rather just some notes given to us online. Most of the time I have to look things up on the web to figure out how to complete the program.

At the moment I'm working on a Car Rental program that takes the input of the make and model, which are irrelevent to the algorithm, and the license plate number of a rental car. It then uses a formula to calculate the rental code as follows:

Example license plate input: CPR 607

1. Take each char from the input seperately and determine its ASCII value. (C = 67, P = 80, R = 82)
2. Add the ASCII values together and % by 26. (67 + 80 + 82 = 229 ... 229 % 26 = 4)
3. Find the letter position of that number in the alphabet (i.e. A = 0, B = 1 , etc...).
4. Take the sum of the ASCII values and add it to the integer in the input (229 + 607 = 836).
5. Take the letter you found and add the sum of the integers together (E836)

The primary problem I have with this program is step 4, as I do not know how to read the integer after a white space. I know the use of readToken() is usually for this, but it isn't for integers, and readInt() wasn't found. If anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

[peter_budo]

Read it as the string and then parse it to integer

[Ezzaral]

I'd try to give an answer, but as a "beginner here at this ho-dunk little forum" I doubt I can offer any insight on the complexities of "REAL Java programming like the pros"...

(Is Princeton giving credit for Maryland State AP coursework now?)

[Chaster]

Well, if you know for sure that the license plate has the format "LLL NNN" (I mean letter by L and number by N), then you can get the integer value like this:

int anIntegerValue = Integer.parseInt(inputString.substring(4, 7));

provided that inputString is a variable of type String, which holds the whole license number. If the license plate may have different types, then just forget about what I've written here.

[stultuske]

Well, if you know for sure that the license plate has the format "LLL NNN" (I mean letter by L and number by N), then you can get the integer value like this:

int anIntegerValue = Integer.parseInt(inputString.substring(4, 7));

provided that inputString is a variable of type String, which holds the whole license number. If the license plate may have different types, then just forget about what I've written here.

as far as I can see, this offers in no way any help, for two reasons:
1. he hasn't shown anything from himself yet, so giving him code won't help him learn
2. maybe you haven't read the entire question, but as far as I can see, this answers none of his questions, since he is not asking how to put the number-part in an integer.

[BestJewSinceJC]

Step one: Read the whole string in all at once. This can be accomplished in a lot of different ways. If you're getting it from a file, you could use Scanner input = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(yourFile.txt))); Otherwise, if you're reading it from the keyboard, Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
Step two: Read in the entire String using String wholeLicense = input.nextLine();
Step three: (There are a number of ways to do this). Make a for loop that goes through every character from the String, then read it into a new String IF the character isn't whitespace. You can figure out if the character is whitespace by making a new Character object, then using the isWhitespace method.

Now you have a String with all the chars you need but without whitespace

[stultuske]

Step one: Read the whole string in all at once. This can be accomplished in a lot of different ways. If you're getting it from a file, you could use Scanner input = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(yourFile.txt))); Otherwise, if you're reading it from the keyboard, Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); Step two: Read in the entire String using String wholeLicense = input.nextLine(); Step three: (There are a number of ways to do this). Make a for loop that goes through every character from the String, then read it into a new String IF the character isn't whitespace. You can figure out if the character is whitespace by making a new Character object, then using the isWhitespace method.

Now you have a String with all the chars you need but without whitespace

well.. almost the same remark as my previous post, the second remark that is

[IMtheBESTatJAVA]

The introduction I gave about me attending Princeton was supposed to be a joke. My colleagues and myself wanted to admire the ridiculous (if any) responses to obvious inconsistency, but as far as these posts go, it is in all seriousness. I hadn't been able to access the internet lately, so I wasn't able to update this thread, but here is a look at the code that I have thus far...

public class CarRental
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
      char fin;
      int one, two, three, sum, rem, num;
      
      ConsoleIO console = new ConsoleIO();
      System.out.println("Enter your car's make here ---> ");

      System.out.println("Enter your car's model here ---> ");

      System.out.println("Enter your car's plate number here ---> ");
      String lix = console.readLine();
      num = console.readInt();
      char first = lix.charAt(0);
      char second = lix.charAt(1);
      char third = lix.charAt(2);
      one = first;
      two = second;
      three = third;
      
      sum = one + two + three + num;
      rem = (sum % 26) + 64;
      rem = (char)rem;
      
      System.out.println("Your car's rental code is " + rem + sum);
    }
}

This was the code I had before I posted here, and as you can see, I tried reading it as an integer without any luck. The integer num is the 3-digit integer after the 3 characters and whitespace. I've been limited to few resources and am without any instructor for this course (for the most part), so all help is appreciated.

[IMtheBESTatJAVA]

Okay I finally got it working and I'm awarding Chaster reputation for solving it. His line of code was the one that solved my program problem. Thanks!

[camcamcam]

Could you please post the code you got to work im having trouble as well.

,Thank you