Converting char to int

[Joshua Mccartney]

Please help me here..

using if/else condition, that determines if the input is a vowel or consonant.

..

[Greg Brannon]

char primitives are themselves numbers or can be treated as numbers. See if this simple program helps illustrate my point:

public class AsciiTest
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        System.out.println(  'c' );
        System.out.println( (int)( 'c' ) );
        System.out.println(  'a' );
        System.out.println( (int)( 'a' ) );
        System.out.println( ( 'c' + 3 ) );
        System.out.println( ( 'c' + 'a' ) );
    }
}

See if that coupled with an ASCII table gives you some ideas how to accomplish the assignment.

[Rob Spoor]

Greg Brannon wrote:

        System.out.println( (int)( 'c' ) );

Note that the parentheses around 'c' are not necessary; (int) 'c' will work just as fine.

See if that coupled with an ASCII table gives you some ideas how to accomplish the assignment.

And you can find such a table on http://www.asciitable.com.

[Winston Gutkowski]

Joshua Mccartney wrote:using if/else condition, that determines if the input is a vowel or consonant.

It really depends on how sophisticated you want this to be; and you also need to allow for the fact that a character may be

neither.

both (in English, the letter 'y' is often characterised as such).

Personally, I'd start out with Character.isLetter() and work from there.

BTW, I have no idea what this has to do with your subject line.

Winston