Hi Everybody,
I've created an array to hold the alphabet . It uses the scanner class to ask the user for a position in the array and print that. I have the first part working however I need to use system.array copy to create a new array of size 27, puts a string containing a space (" ") at index 0 in the new array, and copies all the other letters to positions 1..26 of the new array. My code keeps giving me an array out of bounds exception. So, I was wondering if anybody can help me.
Thanks
public class Alphabet {
// Fill an array with the alphabet
private static String[] alphabet = { "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g",
"h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t",
"u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z" };
private static String[] alphabet2 = new String[alphabet.length];
// Main
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Scanner
Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
// Asks the user for a position in the alphabet between 0 and 25
System.out.println("Select the position to print by entering a value between 0 - 25");
// Finds the index
int theIndex = console.nextInt();
// Prints the requested position and the letter at the position
System.out.println("The letter of the alphabet at position "+ (theIndex) + " is : " + alphabet[theIndex]);
System.arraycopy(alphabet, 0, alphabet2, 1, alphabet.length);
System.out.println("The letter of the alphabet at position" + theIndex + "is :" + alphabet2[theIndex]);
}
}