package javasomethingsomething; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { // all the heavy lifting is done in the PigLatin class PigLatin pg = new PigLatin(); String pigSentence = ""; String sentence = "This is going to be a pig latin sentence"; // iterate over the sentence with for-each and split by " " for (String s:sentence.split(" ")) { pigSentence += pg.getPigLatinForWord(s) + " "; } // added the trim to remove the trailing space System.out.println(pigSentence.trim()); } } class PigLatin{ public String getPigLatinForWord(String word) { int firstVowel = word.length(); // yes, I included y as a vowel!! String[] vowels = {"a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "y"}; for(String s:vowels){ // if indexOf() finds no match it returns -1 if ((word.indexOf(s) < firstVowel) && (word.indexOf(s) != -1)) { firstVowel = word.indexOf(s); } } return word.substring(firstVowel, word.length()) + word.substring(0, firstVowel) + "ay"; } }
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Java - pig latin generator
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