Having trouble excluding the first instance of a letter when replacing, any ideas on how to fix this

[rare sequoia]

I don' t know why my first if statement does exclude it

[simple dove]

Hmm. Delete it and start over

[simple dove]

If you can use indexOf(), you don't need a loop

[rare sequoia]

i think for the assignment it wants me to traverse through string with for loop

[simple dove]

Ah sorry, I didn't understand what was wanted

[rare sequoia]

oh your fine

i feel so stupid ive been stuck on this for like 2 hours

[simple dove]

Have a boolean that remembers whether the first letter has been met

Don't indexOf(). Don't substring()

And prefer to convert the "letter" Strings to chars for easy comparison