My solution to "Your Ride Is Here" from USACO

ride.java

/*
ID: stphung1
LANG: JAVA
TASK: ride
 */
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;

class ride {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(new File("ride.in"));
        PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new File("ride.out"));
        if (toNumber(sc.nextLine()) % 47 == toNumber(sc.nextLine()) % 47) {
            pw.println("GO");
        } else {
            pw.println("STAY");
        }
        pw.close();
    }

    public static int toNumber(String name) {
        int product = 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < name.length(); i++) {
            int charVal = (name.charAt(i) - 'A') + 1;
            product *= charVal;
        }
        return product;
    }
}

Thank you so much for showing me how to use Scanner and PrintWriter. I was able to submit my work now that I see how you used Scanner and PrintWriter to read in and print out the information. Thank you. I wish USACO gave more examples on these read-in and print-out topics in order to help new programmers submit their
work successfully.

Again, thank you!

Don't use scanner. Read the new instructions.

Thankyou!
Actually I'm using c++, but I thought we only need to print GO or STAY until I saw your code that we actually have to create a file "ride.out". Thanks again!

thanks so much for showing me the way to successfully turn in my java code. love ya man no homo.