public class Text2 {

    public static void main(String[] args){
        //STRING METHODS
        String s = "Brandon";
        int x = s.length();
        System.out.println(x); //s.length() is a method.  Don't forget the parantheses
        char c = s.charAt(3); //remember this --> c gets assigned the value 'n'
        System.out.println(c);

        //the format of these methods is string.methodName(parameters)
        //so length has no parameters (that's why it's empty)
        //String is any string object

        String s2 = s.concat(s); //this is equivalent to the + operation for Strings
        System.out.println(s2);//BrandonBrandon

        //What if you wanted a "substring" of a String
        String java = "pencil";
        String javaSub = java.substring(0, 3); //this is a substring method with two parameter
        //(beginning point, end point)
        System.out.println(javaSub);

        //if you wanted the last characters from index 1 onwards
        String javaChop = java.substring(1); //cuts the String from the index 1
        //to the end.  So if substring uses one parameter in a code, you can know
        //that it is equivalent to java.substring(1, java.length());
        System.out.println(javaChop);

        //say you were working with some string of unknown length in some loop
        String test = "ssfsa";
        test = test.substring(test.length() - 2, test.length());
        System.out.println(test);

        String cry = "cry";
        char eraser = cry.charAt(3); //the 3 + 1 = 4th letter doesn't exist
        System.out.println(cry.indexOf('c'));

        System.out.println(eraser);

    }
}