Thread: Help with easy programming

Hi people! My name is Martin Olofsson, I've started learning Java today and I'm just having a few questions that I hope any of you can answer me on. I'm learning Java by a book called "Programmering 1 Java" (written in Swedish) and it's really helpful.

What am I trying to do?
Well, basically I am trying to make the application ask for a character (A-Z) in capital letters and the application should answer in a small letter.

This is what I currently have:

package uppgift.pkg2.pkg8;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class Uppgift28
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
 
        System.out.print("Insert a character: ");
        String alpha = input.nextLine();
 
        char tecken = alpha.charAt(0);
        int kod = (int)tecken + 32;
 
        int newKod = (int)kod;
        String newTecken = Integer.toString(newKod);
 
        System.out.println("A small " + alpha + " is a  " + newTecken + ".");
    }
}

What is going wrong?
This happens:

run:
Insert a character: A
A small A is a 97.
BUILD SUCCESSFULL (total time: 2 seconds)

I want it to answer in the character (small 'a'), not 97.

Is there possibly any helpful genious out there?

Well, you are not converting your new code of lower case character to a real lower case character, you just pick a number and put it to string, you need to use "Character.toChars(97)".

In your application you typecast a char into an int add 32 then when you declare your newKod it's data type is an int you then assign it the value of kod. So as of now your application has 2 variables with the same value (kod = 97; newKod = 97 You need to convert your int number back into a char. Integer.toString(newKod) only turns the variables value into a string so newTecken = "97"

There is "built in" functionality to do just that
See toUpperCase and Character (Java Platform SE 7 )
Note:String toUpperCase and toLowerCase should be used to map characters to uppercase. String case mapping methods have several benefits over Character case mapping methods.
Note: Using a hard coded value to do conversion math assumes all character maps are the same, which is not the case.