Assignemnt #86 and Letter At A Time

Code

    
    ///Name: Daniel Tiffany-Appleton
    ///Period: 7
    ///Program Name: Letter At A Time
    ///File Name: LetterAtATime
    ///Date Finished: 2/8/16
    
    import java.util.Scanner;
    
    public class LetterAtATime
    {
    	public static void main( String[] args )
    	{
    		Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in);
    
    		System.out.print("What is your message? ");
    		String message = kb.nextLine();
    
    		System.out.println("\nYour message is " + message.length() + " characters long.");
    		System.out.println("The first character is at position 0 and is '" + message.charAt(0) + "'.");
    		int lastpos = message.length() - 1;
    		System.out.println("The last character is at position " + lastpos + " and is '" + message.charAt(lastpos) + "'.");
    		System.out.println("\nHere are all the characters, one at a time:\n");
    
    		for ( int i=0; i < message.length(); i++ )
    		{
    			System.out.println("\t" + i + " - '" + message.charAt(i) + "'");
    		}
    
    		int vowel_count = 0;
            
    
    		//What happened was that the program crash or end because the string index was out of bounds.
            
            for ( int i=0; i < message.length(); i++ )
    		{
    			char letter = message.charAt(i);
    			if ( letter == 'a' || letter == 'e' || letter == 'i' || letter == 'o' || letter == 'u' )
    			{
    				vowel_count++;
    			}
                
                else if ( letter == 'A' || letter == 'E' || letter == 'I' || letter == 'O' || letter == 'U' )
    			{
    				vowel_count++;
    			}
    		}
            
            //The length of "box" is 2 and the position of x is 2 
            //The for loop repeats that long because the word ends with the last letter, so the for loop has to end before the end of the word.
    
    		System.out.println("\nYour message contains " + vowel_count + " vowels. Isn't that interesting?");
    
    	}
    }



    

Picture of the output