// Project: StaticMethods
// No modules defined.
// Source code file: Acrostic.java.
// An acrostic is a poem arranged so that the first letters
// of each line have a meaning.  Given an input array of strings
// that represent the lines of a poem, return the string composed
// of the first concatenated letters of the lines of the poem.

public class Acrostic {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[ ] in =
            {"After an extensive winter",
             "Pretty tulips",
             "Rise from the once",
             "Icy ground bringing fresh signs of",
             "Life."};
        String answer = acrostic(in);
        System.out.print(answer);
    }

    // Concatenate first characters of each string in array.
    public static String acrostic(String[ ] input) {
        String output = "";
        for(String line : input) {
            output += line.charAt(0);
        }
        return output;
    }
}