Counting uppercase?

[Stacey Johnson]

Hi,
I'm now working on a program that counts all the uppercase letters in a string entered in the command line arguement. When I try to compile I get an error with the first line below. I'm not too sure what the problem is. Can anyone help?


// Invoke the countLetters method to count each letter
int[] count = countLetters(word.isUpperCase());

// Display results
for (int i = 0; i < count.length; i++) {
if (count[i] != 0)
System.out.print((char)('a' + i) + " appears " +
count[i] + ((count[i] == 1) ? " time\n" : " times\n"));
}
// Count each letter in the string
public static int[] countLetters(String word) {
int[] count = new int[26];

for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
if (Character.isLetter(word.charAt(i)))
count[(int)(word.charAt(i) - 'a')]++;
}

return count;

Thanks
Stacey
};
}

[Maarten Vergouwen]

I dont see a declaration for 'word' outside of the countLetters method.
Unless that is done in a part you didnt post, it would result in an error because 'word' is used outside the scope of the countLetters method.
rgds,
Maarten

[Nischal Topno]

Can you tell what is the compile time error you are getting? That will help us find out the issue fast

[David Peterson]

The call to "isUpperCase()" should be "toUpperCase()".
Hope this helps.
David Peterson

[Sadanand Murthy]

Stacey, it is always a good practice to specify what error you are getting. This will help the others to point you in the right direction. This is especially critical when only part of the code is posted. Some vars that we may think is not declared may have indeed been declared in the unposted code.