Cannot find Symbol for char

Question

School assignment, so this code is meaningless. Whenever I try to use a char, I always seem to get this error

LetsGoShop.java:14: error: cannot find symbol
                       item = input.nextChar();
                                   ^
  symbol:   method nextChar()
  location: variable input of type Scanner
  1 error

Heres the actual code :

import java.util.Scanner;

public class LetsGoShop {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        java.util.Scanner input = new java.util.Scanner(System.in);

        char item ;
        int price;
        int quantity;

        System.out.println(" Enter the name of the item : ");
        item = input.nextChar();
        System.out.println(" Enter the price of said item : ");
        price = input.nextInt();
        System.out.println(" Enter how much of said item you want to buy : ");
        quantity = input.nextInt();

        double total = price * quantity ;
        item = Character.toUpperCase(item);

        System.out.println(" You owe " +total+ " for " +quantity + item);

    }

}

I am just beginning to code, so if the answers obvious, I wouldn't have guessed it.

Answer 1

Since nextChar does not exist, I will offer you to consider trying the following:

char item;
item = input.next().charAt(0);

Edit: from what I understand, you want this:

String item = input.next();
String newItem = input.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + input.substring(1);

This will take a String (item name) from the user, and make the first letter uppercase.

If you want to make sure that all the other letters are lower case, then use:

String newItem = input.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + input.substring(1).toLowerCase();

Edit #2: To capitalize the entire word:

String item = input.next().toUpperCase();