erased my own lowercase method and it now works

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ItemParser.java

 
     public Item parseStringIntoItem(String rawItem) throws ItemParseException {
         LinkedHashMap<String, String> item = getKeyValueEntries(rawItem);
-        if (item.get(0) == null || item.get(1) == null) {
+        if (item.get("name") == null || item.get("price") == null) {
             throw new ItemParseException();
         }
-        Item newItem = new Item(fixAnyZeros(item.get(0)), Double.valueOf(item.get(1)), item.get(2), item.get(3));
+        Item newItem = new Item(fixAnyZeros(item.get("name")), Double.valueOf(item.get("price")), item.get("type"), item.get("expiration"));
         return newItem;
     }
 
         for (String keyValues : keyValuePairs) {
             ArrayList<String> keyAndValue = splitKeysAndValue(keyValues);
             if(keyAndValue.size() == 2) {
-                itemDescription.put(convertToLowerCase(keyAndValue.get(0)), convertToLowerCase(keyAndValue.get(1)));
+                itemDescription.put(keyAndValue.get(0).toLowerCase(), keyAndValue.get(1).toLowerCase());
             }else{
-                itemDescription.put(convertToLowerCase(keyAndValue.get(0)), null);
+                itemDescription.put(keyAndValue.get(0).toLowerCase(), null);
             }
         }
         return itemDescription;
     }
 
-    private String convertToLowerCase(String s) {
-        StringBuilder loweredString = new StringBuilder();
-        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
-            if (s.charAt(i) >= 65 && s.charAt(i) <= 90) {
-                loweredString.append(s.charAt(i) + 32);
-            } else {
-                loweredString.append(s.charAt(i));
-            }
-        }
-        return loweredString.toString();
-    }
-
     public ArrayList<String> findKeyValuePairsInRawItemData(String rawItem) {
         String stringPattern = "[;|^]";
         ArrayList<String> response = splitStringWithRegexPattern(stringPattern, rawItem);
         for (LinkedHashMap<String, Integer> item : itemSeenInfo) {
             for (Map.Entry entry : item.entrySet()) {
                 if (checkIfName(entry.getKey())) {
-                    output.append(String.format("Name: %-10s \t\t\t " +
+                    output.append(String.format("\nName: %-10s \t\t\t " +
                             "Seen: %5d\n================ \t\t\t " +
                             "===========\n", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()));
                 } else {
-                    output.append(String.format("Price: %-5s \t\t\t " +
+                    output.append(String.format("Price: %-5s \t\t\t\t " +
                             "Seen: %5d\n---------------- \t\t\t " +
                             "-----------\n", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()));
                 }
             }
         }
-        output.append("Errors          \t\t\t Seen: " + exceptionCount);
+        output.append("\n\nErrors          \t\t\t Seen:     " + exceptionCount);
         return output.toString();
     }