Jumble Multiple Words

[wethekings]

Hi, I've kinda hit a snag at this.
Ive written my code to jumble a word, but i need it to be able to jumble multiple words, without mixing them together.
What i mean is like say i input: "readers digest"
i would like it to produce something like: "esearrd tegsdi"
instead of what it now produces as something like "reedraetssi dg"

/**
 *
 * @author Kevin Hohl
 */
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class WordShuffler {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        String word;
        List listA = new ArrayList();
        int yes;
        final int SENTINEL = -1;
        System.out.println("Enter a word to be shuffled: "); 
        word = input.nextLine();
        word = word.toLowerCase();
        for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++){
        listA.add(word.charAt(i));
        }
        System.out.println("Jumbled word: " + shuffler(listA));
        do {
        System.out.println("Shuffle again?(1 to shuffle, -1 to quit)");
        yes = input.nextInt();
        System.out.println("Jumbled word: " + shuffler(listA));
        } while (yes != SENTINEL);
    }
    public static String shuffler(List a) {
        String wrdo = "";
        Collections.shuffle(a);
        for (int j=0; j < a.size(); j++) {
            wrdo += a.get(j);            
        }
    return(wrdo);
    }
}

any help with this would be very much appreciated, thank you :)

[emceenugget]

if you're familiar with regexes, you can use the split() method of the String class. if not, you can try out the StringTokenizer class.

[angryboy]

i suggest breaking you original string into string arrays. and break down your class to use methods.

public class MultiWordShuffler {

    public static void main(String[] args){
      String s = "Reader Digest";
      String[] stringArray = ... // split s into arrays.
      
      for(int i=0; ... ){
        stringArray[i] = wordShuffler(stringArray[i]);
      }

      // combine stringArray back into one string.
    }
    
    public static String wordShuffler(String s){
    }
    
    public static String shuffler(List a){
    }
}

[wethekings]

Thanks. I finally figured out how to do it.

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[makpandian]

Mu sugg is Regular Expression