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copied!<p>You have "switch(ch)" but you never assigned it a value. You declared it using "char ch;" but that's not enough.</p> <p>Maybe you want to do:</p> <pre><code>ch = phrase.charAt(i); </code></pre> <p>inside of your loop.</p> <p>So your combined code can look like this:</p> <pre><code>import java.util.Scanner; 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 char ch; // an individual character in the string int countA=0,countE=0,countS=0,countT=0; 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.print ("Enter a sentence or phrase: "); phrase = scan.nextLine(); length = phrase.length(); // Initialize counts countBlank = 0; // a for loop to go through the string character by character for (int i = 0; i < phrase.length(); i++) { if(phrase.charAt(i) == ' ') countBlank++; ch = phrase.charAt(i); switch(ch) { 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: " + countA); System.out.println ("Number of e: " + countE); System.out.println ("Number of s: " + countS); System.out.println ("Number of t: " + countT); System.out.println (); } } </code></pre>

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