How to get sum of char values produced in a loop?

Question

Sorry if the title is misleading or is confusing, but here is my dilemma. I am inputting a string, and want to assign a value to each capitalized letter in the alphabet (A=1, ..

Answer 1

I would prefer to use the character literals. You know that the range is A to Z (1 to 26), so you can subtract 'A' from each char (but you need to add 1 because it doesn't start at 0). I would also call toUpperCase on the input line. Something like,

Scanner scannerTest = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter a name here: ");
String str = scannerTest.nextLine().toUpperCase();
int sum = 0;
for (char ch : str.toCharArray()) {
    if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z') {
        sum += 1 + ch - 'A';
    }
}
System.out.printf("The sum of %s is %d%n", str, sum);

Which I tested with your example

Enter a name here: 
ABCD
The sum of ABCD is 10