This is the instruction:
Mrs. Rogers, the owner of "Jus' Right supermarket", has asked your consulting firm to design a program for a simple cash register system which will allow the cashiers at the shop to total the price of the items being bought by a customer, calculate the tax on each item, calculate any relevant customer discount on the total and provide the final payable amount of the bill.

POINTS TO NOTE:
1. Items belong to one of two categories - VAT (V) or Non-Vat (N), and the system must accommodate for this:
a. VAT items incur a 10% tax;
b. Non-VAT items incur no tax.
2. The cashier will enter the category (V or N) and the price of each item until all of a customer's items have been entered. (The list of items ends when the cashier enter 0 for rhe price)
3. a discount of 15% is given is the total exceeds $1000.00.
4. Things to be displayed to the screen: subtotal before tax, total tax, discount and final bill payable.


This is my code: but when i run it with the V and N I get errors, If I run it with 1 and 2 instead it runs fine.
How can I get it to work using V and N in the cases?

package AssgnII;
import java.util.*;

public class Cashregister {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        Scanner inn = new Scanner (System.in);
        double Item_price=0, Vat = 0, Sub_total = 0, Total_tax = 0, Final_bill, Total = 0, Dis_cnt = 0;
        int Item_cat;
        char V, N;
        
        //System.out.println("Enter 0 to end price");
        System.out.println("Please enter the price of the item");
        Item_price = inn.nextDouble();
        while (Item_price !=0)
        {
            System.out.println("Please enter the category of the item - V  for Vat and N for non-vat");
            Item_cat = (char) inn.nextInt(); 
        switch (Item_cat)
        {
            case 'V' : 
            {   Vat = Item_price * 0.10;
                break;
            }
            case 'N' :
            {   Vat = Item_price * 0.00;
                break;
            }
            default : System.out.println("ERROR, ERROR, ERROR");
        } 
        Sub_total += Item_price;
        Total_tax += Vat;
        Total = Sub_total + Total_tax;
        System.out.println("Enter the price of the item");
        Item_price = inn.nextDouble();
        }
                  
        if (Total > 1000)
            Dis_cnt = Total * 0.15;
        
        Final_bill = Total - Dis_cnt;
        
        System.out.println("The subtotal is" + Sub_total);      
        System.out.println("The Total Tax is"+ Total_tax); 
        System.out.println("The Discount is" + Dis_cnt); 
        System.out.println("The Final bill is" + Final_bill); 
        }
        
    }

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Line 19, you use nextInt, which reads integer values (eg 123), but you want to read a char 'V' or 'N'. You could use next() to get the input as a String, then get the first char from that String.

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SoniaC...
What is someone enters "v" or "n" instead of "V" or "N"?

SoniaC...
What is someone enters "v" or "n" instead of "V" or "N"?

That's the thing. I am just going on the instructions of my professor. She said she wants us to use V and N instead of 1 and 2. I got it to run wonderfully with 1 or 2 but the V and N is giving me trouble. It did cross my mind with the uppercase and lowercase issue but its what she asked us to do. So i dont know.

Line 19, you use nextInt, which reads integer values (eg 123), but you want to read a char 'V' or 'N'. You could use next() to get the input as a String, then get the first char from that String.

I tried that but still got an error

If you don't say exactly what the error was, nobody can help you fix it.

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