how can i do this?

Write a program that reads a string of characters, say a piece of an article in a magazine, and determines how many times each vowel appears in the passage.

[Matt Fig]

When your assignment says, "say a piece of an article in a magazine" I imagine you are going to need some serious image processing code. Is that true, or will you enter the string in by hand? Either way, what have you done so far?

[Sean de Wolski]

@Matt, you could regexp the urlread of the online version ;)

[bob shot]

im actually having problem with those 4 questions that i posted but i figured those 2 questions i just didnt know how to start the writing program questions

[bob shot]

im really actually begging for help guys. i just need help thats all

[Walter Roberson]

Start by answering Matt's first question.

Then read

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/8026-best-way-s-to-master-matlab

[Image Analyst]

And http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/8626-how-do-i-get-help-on-homework-questions-on-matlab-answers

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Here's a few hints for you, assuming you just type in the text from the article into your m-file:

s = 'abcdefGHIJKLmnopqRSTUVwxyz'
letterIndex = lower(s) - 'a'
% Now look up the hist() function

That should be enough to start you off.

[Walter Roberson]

Though it is admittedly tricky to figure out when "y" is a vowel and when it is a consonant.