The program generates random letters and numbers for no purpose other than to give me something to stare at. My problem, is this: I want to tell Java to look for a specific letter "Q", and type a line of text whenever this letter is randomly displayed. I've tried with no luck to google the answer to my question, but given my noobish level, I'm not sure I'm even asking the correct question, i.e. using proper Java syntax / lingo, to refer to my problem. Here is my code, if it helps. Thanks in advance for anyone's help.

 

where's your if statement to determine "Q"? Why do you have i incrementing and have your sleep method in a try block?

 

The purpose was to slow down the rate at which the computer displays the random gibberish in the output window. Without it, the output cannot be seen until I stop the program, this way I have the program generate one character/number at a time, wait 400 milliseconds, then generate the next, and so on.

The if statement to determine "Q", is what I am stuck on. Everything shown in the screen-shot, is what I have at this point. I'm still playing around with it, but I'm out of ideas.

 

I think line 14 should be within an if statement.

Maybe set line 12 equal to a [string]variable and use it to compare your output