Sentence counter

[testing321]

Hi everyone-my first question on javacodez

i had to create a program that asks user to input sentences and then displays the number of sentences.

Example: user input: i like clouds. i hate rocks.
output: the no. of sentences are 2

so i worked on the program and this is what the main part of my code looks like:
{
c = new Console ();


c.println ("Please enter the sentences");
String userInput;
userInput=c.readLine ();

String word;
int punctuation=userInput.length;


for (int counter=0; counter<=1; counter++)
{

if(userInput.equals ("?") && userInput.equals ("!") && userInput.equals ("."))

{
c.println ("the number of sentences are");
c.println ((counter+userInput.length ()));

}

}

the problem: after running it and entering a sentence the code stops.
i need help with correcting the part in my for loop.




i will appreciate any help
Thanks alot!

[albinjoseph]

Try this loop

Code:

int punctuation=userInput.length();

        int sentenceCounter = 0;
        for (int counter=0; counter<punctuation; counter++)
        {
            if(userInput.charAt(counter) == '?' || userInput.charAt(counter) == '!' || userInput.charAt(counter) == '.')
            {
                sentenceCounter++;
            }
        }
        
        System.out.println("Number of sentences are :- "+sentenceCounter);