Help with JAVA StringObject - & assign user input; StringMethod

Question

Hi Everyone! I need help with this Java Program, I need to write a program, single class, & file. That will prompt the user to enter a word. The output will be separted by hypens and do this until the user enters exit. I think this is done by using a string variable. Then use the length of the word to setup a loop to print each letter out with hypens. (example c-a-t)
1. I think I should store the word like this: Word.Method(). Not sure of this the API was confusing for me because I wasn't sure of what to do.
2. A string method to find out how many letters are in the user's word in order to setup a loop to print each letter out. I think I can use a While loop to accomplish this?
3. A string method to access each letter in a string object individually in order to print individual letters to the screen with those hypens. This is really confusing for me? Can this be accomplished in the While loop? or do I declare variables in the main method.
Any examples you can refer me to would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Getting user input:
This may look strange to a newbie but there's nothing much you can do since you wanted a single class file:import java.io.*
public class InputTest {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
      System.out.println("Hi! Please type a word and press enter.");
      String lineReadFromUser = in.readLine();
      System.out.println("You typed " + lineReadFromUser);
}You can get the lenght of a String using the length() method. Example: int len = "Foobar".length();
You can get the individual characters of a String with the charAt() method. Example: char firstCharOfString = string.charAt(0);
(remember that the argument must be from 0 to length-1)
You can access the documentation of all classes, including java.lang.String, at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html You can also download the docs.