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Thread: issue with Character.isUpperCase class

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    Default issue with Character.isUpperCase class

    Hi there, I'm having issues with my program. Only one part of the driver program is having issues. For that reason, I've only attached a small section of the code. I was wonder if anyone would be kind enough to explain why I keep having the errors:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range

    here is the code:

       import java.util.Scanner;
     
       public class characterTest
       {
          public static void main(String [] args)
          {
             Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
     
             String str;
     
             System.out.println("Enter string");
             str = input.next();
     
             int i, count3 = 0;
     
     
             for (i = 1; i <= str.length(); i++)
     
             {
                if (Character.isUpperCase(str.charAt(i)))
                   count3++;
             }
     
             System.out.println("your upper char: " +count3);
          }
       }


    Thank you for any advice!


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    Default Re: issue with Character.isUpperCase class

    Indexes begin at 0, so the last character in a String is at position length() - 1. In the code you posted
             for (i = 1; i <= str.length(); i++)
    the <= will eventually try to access the string at position length(), which is beyond its bounds.

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    Default Re: issue with Character.isUpperCase class

    Thanks Copeg for the hint. I'm very new to programming so it may take me a while to try to understand what you mean.

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    Default Re: issue with Character.isUpperCase class

    edit - I resolved it. I changed it to:

    for (i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)

    Thanks a lot for your help!
    Last edited by suxen; March 24th, 2011 at 09:38 PM.

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