title: Output the word in a string with the largest amount of vowels
body: <p>I mostly have the method done but I am confused when it comes to the If statement concerned with storing a variable with the word with the most  amount of vowels, NOTE I am not allowed to use arrays.
  below is my code</p>
  
  <pre><code>//method for vowels and consonants
  
  public static int Vowelcount(String sentence)
  {
  
      int maxvowelcount =0;
      int minvowelcount =0;
      String vowel="";
      int consonantcount = 0;
      int vowelcount = 0;
      int index = 0;
      String currentword;
      int spacePos;
      int noOfchars = 0;
      int largest = 0 ;
      int smallest = 0 ;
  
      //gets rid of leading and trailing spaces so as to get the last word
      sentence=sentence.trim() + " ";     
  
      //assignments
      spacePos=sentence.indexOf(" ");
      currentword = sentence.substring(0, spacePos);
  
      while (spacePos &gt;-1)// when no spaces are found
      {
          noOfchars=0;
          currentword = sentence.substring(0, spacePos);
  
          // remove the first word
          sentence = sentence.substring(spacePos+1);
  
          spacePos=sentence.indexOf(" ");
  
          // to count the number of vowels in the string 
          for(index = 0; index&lt;currentword.length(); index++)
          {
              if(currentword.charAt(index)=='a' || currentword.charAt(index)=='e' ||
                 currentword.charAt(index)=='i' || currentword.charAt(index)=='o' ||
                 currentword.charAt(index)=='A' || currentword.charAt(index) == 'E' ||
                 currentword.charAt(index) == 'I' || currentword.charAt(index) == 'O' )
              {
                  vowelcount++;
              }            
              else
              {
                  consonantcount++;
              }       
  
              //if statement to overwrite currentword with largest/smallest
              if (index == 0)
              {
                  minvowelcount = currentword.length();
                  maxvowelcount = currentword.length();
              }
  
              if (vowelcount &lt; minvowelcount)
              {
                  minvowelcount = vowelcount;
              }           
  
              if (vowelcount &gt; maxvowelcount)
              {
                  maxvowelcount = vowelcount;
                  vowel=currentword;
              }   
          }   
      }   
  
      //output to show the word with largest amount of vowels
      System.out.println( "word with largest amount of vowels is " + vowel);
      return vowelcount;  
  }       
  </code></pre>