Syllable Counter Method sure doesn't work

Question

Ok, I'm writing a program to calculate the Flecsh index, and I wrote this syllable counter method. I'm definitely doing something wrong, because it doesn't work. This is my class 'Manuscript'
public class Manuscript
     public int numberOfSyllables;
     public String txt = "Life is like a box of chocolates. I love godiva chocolate! I love Lindt chocolate";
     public Manuscript()
          numberOfSyllables = 0;
public void output()
          System.out.println(numberOfSyllables);
public int syllableCount(String txt)
          StringTokenizer syllableCount = new StringTokenizer(txt, " ,.!;/n?");
          String token;
          String endLetterString;
          int wordSyllable;
          char letter;
          char endLetter;          
          do
               token = syllableCount.nextToken();
               String[] array = new String[token.length()];
               int i;
               String arrayVariable;
               wordSyllable = 0;
               for (i=0; i < array.length; i++)
                    letter = token.charAt(i);
                    arrayVariable =  Character.toString(letter);
                    array[i] = arrayVariable;
                    if(array[i] == "a" || array[i] == "o" || array[i] == "e" || array[i] == "i" || array[i] == "u" || array[i] == "y")
                         wordSyllable++;
                         numberOfSyllables++;
                    endLetter = token.charAt(token.length()-1);
                    endLetterString = Character.toString(endLetter);
               if(endLetterString == "e" || (wordSyllable < 2 && endLetterString =="y"))
                    numberOfSyllables--;
          } while (syllableCount.hasMoreTokens());
               return numberOfSyllables;And my driver program:
public class Driver {
     public static void main(String[] args)
          Manuscript text = new Manuscript();
          text.syllableCount("Life is like a box of chocolates. I love godiva chocolate! I love Lindt chocolate");
          text.output();
}And I know I'm passing the same String twice, but it doesn't seem to have any effect, and that's a placeholder for a future user defined String anyway.
The result I get isn't an error, it's a big fat zero syllables. The code compiles just fine, it just prints a zero, so I've got a logic error in there somewhere. I've gone over and over this and have no idea where it is.
Please help me.
Edited by: JavaN00b on Apr 23, 2008 7:11 PM

Answer 1

Wow. I feel unsmart.
I changed my code to read:
          public int syllableCount(String txt)
          StringTokenizer syllableCount = new StringTokenizer(txt, " ,.!/n?;");
          String token;
          String endLetterString;
          int wordSyllable;
          char letter;
          char endLetter;          
          do
               token = syllableCount.nextToken();
               String[] array = new String[token.length()];
               int i;
               String arrayVariable;
               for (i=0; i < array.length; i++)
                    wordSyllable=0;
                    letter = token.charAt(i);
                    arrayVariable =  Character.toString(letter);
                    array[i] = arrayVariable;
                    if(array.equalsIgnoreCase("a") || array[i].equalsIgnoreCase("o") || array[i].equalsIgnoreCase("e") || array[i].equalsIgnoreCase("i") || array[i].equalsIgnoreCase("u") || array[i].equalsIgnoreCase("y"))
                         wordSyllable++;
                         numberOfSyllables++;
                    endLetter = token.charAt(array.length -1);
                    endLetterString = Character.toString(endLetter);
                    if((endLetterString.equalsIgnoreCase("e") && (wordSyllable > 1)))
                    numberOfSyllables--;
          } while (syllableCount.hasMoreTokens());
               return numberOfSyllables;Checking it out, I'm getting the incrementing part of the method works just fine, but the decrement doesn't. I get '12' instead of '24'.
If I edit this: endLetter = token.charAt(array.length -1);
                    endLetterString = Character.toString(endLetter);
                    if((endLetterString.equalsIgnoreCase("e") && (wordSyllable > 1)))
                    numberOfSyllables--;
               }To this:endLetter = token.charAt(array.length -1);
                    endLetterString = Character.toString(endLetter);
                    if((endLetterString.equalsIgnoreCase("e") && (wordSyllable != 1)))
                    numberOfSyllables--;
               }I get 30. What gives?