[mastern200]

Hello there. i need some help finishing up my pig latin translator program. It compiles fine, but when i run it and try to translate a sentence, it gives me a syntax error and i cannot see the error. i am almost done with it, please help!

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.String;

public class IgLatinPay
{
	public static void main(String [] args)
	{
		String temporary = " ";
		String piglatin = " ";

		Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
		System.out.println("Enter sentence that you want to translate: ");
		String english = input.nextLine();

		while(english.indexOf(' ') != -1)
		{
			temporary=english.substring(0,english.indexOf(' '));
			english=english.substring(english.indexOf(' '));

			if(temporary.charAt(0)=='a' || temporary.charAt(0)=='e' || temporary.charAt(0)=='i' || temporary.charAt(0)=='o' || temporary.charAt(0)=='u')
			{
				piglatin=temporary+"way";
				System.out.println(piglatin);
			}
			else
			{
				char firstChar = temporary.charAt(0);
				piglatin=temporary.substring(1,temporary.indexOf(' '))+ firstChar +"ay";
				System.out.println(piglatin);
			}
			piglatin+=temporary+" ";
		}
	}
}

[barker1]

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -2
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1768)
at IgLatinPay.main(IgLatinPay.java:31)

The above is the error that I got from attemting to run your code at line 31

piglatin=temporary.substring(1,temporary.indexOf(' '))+ firstChar +"ay";


the temporary.indexOf(' ') call is returning a -1, therefore
you are trying to do:

are executing the following:
piglatin = temporary.substr(1, -1) + "t" + "ay";

it doesn't know what to do with the -1, you have to check for a negative when doing the temporary.indexOf, and handle that case.

Oh, btw the "t" that I put in there is the character extracted from the input data that I used: "this is a test"...

This post has been edited by barker1: 23 October 2007 - 06:04 PM