mastersteve10

I have been trying to figure out a code for counting vowels and one for counting white spaces but have no idea how to have variables entered by a user converted to a number. what i have so far is -

{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String Entry;
int count = 0;
char a = a, e, i, o, u;
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Enter your statement and I will count your vowels ");
Entry = input.nextLine();

if(Entry.isLettersOrDigits(a))
count = count + 1;

System.out.print("Your statement had " + count + " vowels entered.");
}



}
no idea what should be kept and what to continues, as this is nowhere near how i started writing it, just after two hours of reading and testing i rewrote it manys over trying different ()method. I would appreciate any help and the quicker the better as i need this done tonight.