Looping assistance (counting number of characters in a variable)

Question

Good morning, all! I was wondering if anybody could take a look at this small, easy project I was working on today. I've searched the net for an answer and while it was useful and I learned a few things, nothing is really working. The code is pretty self explanatory, infact, I'm embarrassed I do not know how to do this, because I'm sure I know. Basically, counting the length of the variable is not working. The output is supposed to be as many times as the input is long in characters (I hope that makes sense!) Anyways, if you could take a look and tell me if you see anyway I could fix this, I would appreciate it.
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;/**
* @author Willaim
public class Loop {
     * @param args
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          String loopInput;
          int count;
          loopInput = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter a word for the loop demo: ");
          while(count < loopInput.length){
               System.out.println("" +loopInput);
               count = count + 1;
          for (count = -1; count < loopInput.length; ++count){
                    System.out.println(loopInput);
          do {System.out.println("loopInput");
               count++;
               }while (count < loopInput.length);
     }

Answer 1

1) to get length from a String, you must use a method and all methods end in parenthesis (arrays are different in that you are getting the length field, and this doesn't require parenthesis.
2) You probably don't want to use this "count" variable. You will probably be better with a for loop here since the number of iterations through the loop is defined in advance.
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