Acronyms acronyms

Question

An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of words in a set phrase. Write a program whose input is a phrase and whose output is an acronym of the input. If a word begins with a lower case letter, don't include that letter in the acronym. Assume there will be at least one upper case letter in the input.

Ex: If the input is:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

the output should be:

IEEE

Your program must define and call a method thats returns the acronym created for the given userPhrase.

public static String createAcronym(String userPhrase)

import java.util.Scanner;

public class LabProgram {

/* Define your method here */

public static void main(String[] args) {

/* Type your code here. */

}

}

Answer 1

import java.io.*;

class LabProgram

{

private Console console;

public LabProgram()

{

console = System.console();

}

public String createAcronym(String userPhrase)

{

String acronymReturn=" ";

String [] tokens = userPhrase.split(" ");

for (int iLoop=0; iLoop<tokens.length; iLoop++)

{

char chFirstChar = tokens[iLoop].charAt(0);

if ((chFirstChar>='A') && (chFirstChar<='Z'))

{

acronymReturn += chFirstChar;

}

}

return(acronymReturn.trim());

}

public void Go()

{

System.out.print(" Please input :>");

String str = console.readLine();

String acronym = createAcronym(str.trim());

System.out.println(acronym);

}

public static void main(String args[])

{

LabProgram x = new LabProgram();

x.Go();

}

}