Hi everyone!!! I'm a super beginner taking some classes at a local community college. We're on writing methods right now, and I'm running into a roadblock. I have the code below written so far for the method I'd like to use (i can post the full file code if you'd like).

int vowels;
char ch;    
for(int i = 0; i < input.length() ; i  ){
    vowels = 0;


           //as i   increases, so does the position being tested.
            ch = input.charAt(i);
            if(ch == 'a' || ch == 'A' || ch == 'e' || ch == 'E' || ch == 'i' || ch == 'I' || ch == 'o'
                   || ch == 'O' || ch == 'u' || ch == 'U' || ch == 'y' || ch == 'Y'){
               vowels  ; //increases vowels variable, such that it only will increase if the 
                         //string has characters matching one of those characters

            }
       }
return vowels;
}

Currently, the "return vowels;" portion of the code (on line 16) is giving an error, and I'm stumped as to why.

EDIT: Full code is posted in comments in response to /u/Nincodedo

EDIT 2: It has been solved!! I needed to initialize vowels outside the loop instead of inside in this case. Thanks again to /u/Nincodedo.