Thread: Input/Output help if possible

Hi there ladies and gents. Firstly I am very new to programming and unfortunately finding it hard to grasp the concept and it is not clicking with me as it does with others.
To bwgin with here is my code which works and does what I intend it to do, but the way I am reading it out is what i need help with.

class Main
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
     System.out.print( "#Enter line of text : ");
     String place = BIO.getString();
 
     while ( ! place.equals("END") )
     {
         System.out.printf("spaces in : %s is : %d",
                                                       place, countCh( place, ' ' ) );
         System.out.println();
         System.out.print( "#Enter place name : " );
         place = BIO.getString();
        }
    }
    public static int countCh( String s, char c )
    {
        String sLC = s.toLowerCase();
 
        int count = 0;
        for ( int i = 0; i < sLC.length(); i++ )
        {
            if ( sLC.charAt(i) == c )
            count++;
        }
        return count;
    }

An example of the output i receive could be this :
"
spaces in : Line 1 test test is : 3
spaces in : Line-2 is : 0
spaces in : Line 3 a b c d e f g is : 8
"

However, i would like to output it in a different format; being like this :
[ 3] spaces in "Line 1 test test"
[ 0] spaces in "Line-2"
[ 8] spaces in "Line 3 a b c d e f g"


EDIT
I just changed the line

 System.out.printf("spaces in : %s is : %d",
                                                       place, countCh( place, ' ' ) );

TO

System.out.printf("[%s %d] spaces in ",
                                                       place, countCh( place, ' ' ) );

The last part is making it read out what is inputted at the end of that line. E.g [ 3] spaces in "line test test 1" Its just how i intergrate that last line; i have no idea why its confusing me because im sure its so simple. As i say below, ill keep playing with it in the meantime.

I know this is a very simple problem, but every time i change something i mess up my code somehow :<
I hope i have given enough details and thanks in advance to anyone that reads this. I will continue to play with it and if i get the results i want before i get a reply then ill post for this to be closed

Thanks

p.s BIO is just a simple input/output method used at my university which is tuned into our blueJ
p.p.s If anyone could reccomend some extremely good sites with tutorials and Java bits on that help for extreme beginners then please do

Further edit (apologies for all the extra reading, just want to show what i have tried and what i have not)
I just changed it to this

System.out.printf("[ %d] spaces in %s ",
                                                       place, countCh( place, ' ' ) );

Which gave me this - java.util.IllegalFormatConversionException: d != java.lang.String
at java.util.Formatter$FormatSpecifier.failConversion (Formatter.java:4045)
at java.util.Formatter$FormatSpecifier.printInteger(F ormatter.java:2748)
at java.util.Formatter$FormatSpecifier.print(Formatte r.java:2702)
at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:2488)
at java.io.PrintStream.format(PrintStream.java:970)
at java.io.PrintStream.printf(PrintStream.java:871)
at Main.main(Main.java:17)
No idea what this means >.<

Recommended reading: Formatter (Java Platform SE 6)

That should help you decipher what's going into printf. If you're still having trouble, I suggest you throw together a really basic SSCCE (possibly only one line in a main method in a class) that demonstrates what you're working with.

Well, your exception is caused because you're passing an int when you've specified that you'd pass a String instead. You're not using the printf function correctly, which makes me think that you don't understand format Strings (heck, half the time I need a reminder). That link explains how to use format Strings. If you read through that link and still have questions, I really suggest narrowing the problem down to an SSCCE. I'm betting that what you're doing wrong will become more obvious to you in the process of creating the SSCCE.

That's because String literals are indicated by quotation marks, so when the compiler reaches the second quotation mark, it thinks you want to close the String, and it can't make sense of the rest of it.

The solution is to escape the quotation marks inside the String. You do this by putting a backslash before the quotation mark you want to ignore:

String escaped = "This String contains \"escaped\" quotation marks!"