Getting a for loop inside a while loop

Question

I've been having problems with the code below. I'm trying to get the 'while' loop to work so that the program will continue to run after a user types in a sentence. This is supposed to print out how many times a letter has been typed when a sentence has been put in, but it's not working right. It just keeps adding the first sentences numbers together even when a new sentence is typed out. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with this 'while' loop.
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.*;
public class Count
public static void main (String[] args)
String phrase; // a string of characters
int countBlank; // the number of blanks (spaces) in the phrase
int length; // the length of the phrase
int countA = 0; // the number of a's in the phrase
int countT = 0; // the number of t's in the phrase
int countE = 0;
int countS = 0;
char ch; // an individual character in the string
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
// Print a program header
System.out.println ();
System.out.println ("Character Counter");
System.out.println ();
// Read in a string and find its length
System.out.println ("Enter a sentence or phrase ('quit' to quit): ");
phrase = scan.nextLine();
length = phrase.length();
// Initialize counts
countBlank = 0;
// a while loop to allow user to keep entering phrases
   while (true)
   String line=scan.nextLine();
          System.out.println("Type quit to quit or enter a new phrase.");
     if(line.equals("quit"))
break;
// a for loop to go through the string character by character
// and count the blank spaces
for(int i = 0; i < phrase.length(); i++)
ch = phrase.charAt(i);
switch (ch)
case ' ': countBlank++;
break;
case 'a':
case 'A': countA++;
break;
case 't':
case 'T': countT++;
break;
case 'e':
case 'E': countE++;
break;
case 's':
case 'S': countS++;
break;
// Print the results
System.out.println ();
System.out.println ("Number of blank spaces: " + countBlank);
System.out.println ("Number of A's: " + countA);
System.out.println ("Number of T's: " + countT);
System.out.println ("Number of E's: " + countE);
System.out.println ("Number of S's: " + countS);
System.out.println ();
}

Answer 1

Ok well I don't really understand what you're saying, but here's an improved version of my code and I can get it to work, but I don't know how to turn the "do while" loop into just a "while" loop.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Count3
     public static void main (String[] args) {
          String      phrase;           // a string of characters
          int      countBlank=0;      // the number of blanks (spaces) in the phrase
          int      length;           // the length of the phrase
          char      ch;                // an individual character in the string
          int      countA=0;       
          int      countE=0;
          int      countS=0;
          int      countT=0;
          String quit = new String("quit"); //String wasn't initialized
          Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
          // Print a program header
          System.out.println ();
          System.out.println ("Character Counter");
          System.out.println ();
          do { //do-while loop
          // Read in a string and find its length
          System.out.println("Enter a sentence or phrase, or type \"quit\" to quit: ");
          phrase = scan.nextLine();
          length = phrase.length();
          // a for loop to go through the string character by character
          // and count the blank spaces, a's, e's, s', and t's
               for (int i = 0; i <= length-1; i++) {
                    ch = phrase.charAt(i);
                    switch (ch) {
                         case ' ': countBlank++;
                         break;
                         case 'a':
                         case 'A': countA++;
                         break;
                         case 'e':
                         case 'E': countE++;
                         break;
                         case 's':
                         case 'S': countS++;
                         break;
                         case 't':
                         case 'T': countT++;
                         break;
               // Print the results
               System.out.println ();
               System.out.println ("Number of blank spaces: " + countBlank);
               System.out.println ("Number of a's: " + countA);
               System.out.println ("Number of e's: " + countE);
               System.out.println ("Number of s's: " + countS);
               System.out.println ("Number of t's: " + countT);
               System.out.println ();
               countA=0; countE=0; countS=0; countT=0; countBlank=0;
          }while (!(phrase.equalsIgnoreCase(quit)));          
     }//end main
}//end class Count