Java Program to test if a character is uppercase/lowercase/number/vowel

Question

As I said before, how do I test if the entered character is one of the parameters? I've written this code, but it doesn't seem to run very well(or at all), no errors, however. Also, I need to use the basic code I've used here. Its for school and we lose points if we use things they haven't taught us (darn school).

class doody
 {
  public static void main(String[] args)
  { char i;
    char input='D';

    for(i='A';i<='Z';i++)//check if uppercase
    {
        if(input==i){
            System.out.println("Uppercase");
            switch(input){
            case 'A':
            case 'E':
            case 'I':
            case 'O':
            case 'U':
                System.out.println("Vowel"); break;
            default: System.out.println("Not a vowel"); break;}
            }

        for(i='a';i<='z';i++)//check if lowercase
        {
            if(input==i){
                System.out.println("Lowercase");
                switch(input){
                case 'a':
                case 'e':
                case 'i':
                case 'o':
                case 'u':
                System.out.println("Vowel"); break;
                default: System.out.println("Not a vowel"); break;
                }}


        for(i='0';i<='9';i++)//check if number
        {
            if(input==i)
                System.out.println("Number");
        }

    }

}}}

Edit: Here is some code I threw together today. Much simpler. I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier. It was probably because I was groggy, it was late.

class doody
{
 public static void main(String[] args)
 {  
    char input='$';//input here.

    boolean lorn=false;
    if(input>='a'&&input<='z')
        {System.out.println("Lowercase");
            lorn=true;
        if(input=='a')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='e')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='i')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='o')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='u')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        }

    if(input>='A'&&input<='Z')
        {System.out.println("Uppercase");
            lorn=true;
        if(input=='A')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='E')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='I')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='O')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        if(input=='U')System.out.println("Vowel.");
        }

    if(input>='0'&&input<='9')
        {
            lorn=true;
            System.out.println("Number");
        }

    if(lorn==false)System.out.println("It is a special character");
 }
}

Answer 1

If it weren't a homework, you could use existing methods such as Character.isDigit(char), Character.isUpperCase(char) and Character.isLowerCase(char) which are a bit "smarter", because they don't operate only in ASCII, but also in various charsets.

static final char[] VOWELS = { 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U' };

static boolean isVowel(char ch) {
    for (char vowel : VOWELS) {
        if (vowel == ch) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

static boolean isDigit(char ch) {
    return ch >= '0' && ch <= '9';
}

static boolean isLowerCase(char ch) {
    return ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z';
}

static boolean isUpperCase(char ch) {
    return ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z';
}