Need help with formatting output - PLEASE HELP :(

**ProgrammablePeter** · December 1st, 2013, 06:30 PM

Basically all I'm after is to be able to format a String that is inputted by the user:

For example:

My code would look something like this:

public class TestData {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner kbd = new Scanner(System.in);
 
System.out.println("Please enter your name: ")
String name = kbd.nextLine();
 
}
 
}

I want to format the user input to something like this:

USER ENTERS John Smith
OUTPUT: J Smith

USER ENTERS: John Paul Smith
OUTPUT: J Smith

USER ENTERS John Paul-Smith
OUTPUT: J Smith

How would I go about doing this?

**Norm** · December 1st, 2013, 07:23 PM

Read the full name, split out out parts of the name, get the first letter of the first name, print it.

**racoonic** · December 2nd, 2013, 09:48 AM

[QUOTE=ProgrammablePeter;132275]Basically all I'm after is to be able to format a String that is inputted by the user:

For example:

My code would look something like this:

*** code removed

**Norm** · December 2nd, 2013, 10:00 AM

@racoonic
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