title: Calculate number of letters in string array?
body: <p>I am trying to calculate the total number of letters within the array? I was attempting to change the array to string, then calculate total string length (code below) but cant get it to work? (point of interest in Bold) Thanks to anyone in advance. </p>
  
  <pre><code>package practical5;
  
  import java.util.Arrays;
  
  public class Part1_9 {
  
  public static void main(String[] args) {
  
      // declaring and populating array
      String quoteArray[] = { "\"Continuous", "effort", "not", "strength",
              "nor", "intelligence", "is", "the", "key", "to", "unlocking",
              "our", "potential.\"\n" };
  
      // for loop to print full array
      for (int counter = 0; counter &lt; quoteArray.length; counter++) {
          System.out.print(quoteArray[counter] + " ");
      }// end of for loop
  
      // Printing array using Enhanced for/ for each loop (Different way to
      // print array)
      for (String element : quoteArray) {
          System.out.print(element + " ");
      }// end of enhanced for
  
      // line break
      System.out.println();
  
      // printing number of words in array
      System.out.println("Number of words in array: " + quoteArray.length);
  
      **// printing total number of letters in array**
      for (int counter = 0; counter &lt; quoteArray.length; counter++) {
          String letters = new String(quoteArray[counter]);
      }
  
      // printing the smallest word
  
      // printing the biggest word
  
  }// end of main
  
  }// end of class
  </code></pre>