Re: String/isUpperCase?

From: Roedy Green (roedy_at_seewebsite.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:15:17 GMT

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:22:26 -0500, "jim" <jblduron@bright.net> wrote
or quoted :

>I'm new to java and could use some help with a program that reads a string
>and counts the Upper Case letters. I tried isUpperCase but it was only doing
>a character not the whole string. Do I need some sort of next command or can
>I change the string to something else? any help would be appreciated.

you could either loop checking each char or more crudely you could use
toUpperCase and compare using equals with the original. It would
probably even work using ==, but that would be living dangerously. 

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