Anyone good with java coding?

i don't know java but the pseudo code would be something like this:

for each input letter
for the number of rows for that letter
print +
for the number of columns (same as above)
print out -
print out +
new line
print out |
for the number of columns (again)
print out letter
print out |
new line

I think that should work, hopefully ns doesn't mess up the spacing

this should show it

yeah i have the actual output dialed, now i just need to make it work with a single line of inputs, and print different sized and letter coded "buildings"

for(int i = 0; i < num; ++i){
for(int j = 0; j < num; ++j){
system.print("+-");
}
system.println("+");
for(int j = 0; j < num; ++j){
system.print("|" + buildingChar);
}
system.println("|");
}
for(int j = 0; j < num; ++j){
system.print("+-");
}

^not sure if the for loops are java style, but I'm pretty sure that's how you print things in java. Its been a while. Notice the use of "print" vs "println".

as far as one line input, do a while loop checking for the end of the input stream, however you do that in java. Then first thing inside the while loop, read in an int, and a char. If java is anything like c++, the other input values will stay in the input stream until you start your while loop again and read in the next set.

that's what I would say, or you could do command line input. I don't know java though, only c++ so I can't really help that much

thanks for the help