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[AgentApe]

I've constructed a method that combines the use of a string tokeniser and string builder to translate words in a string to other words. This method though just seems to produce errors. Can someone take a look at this method and please explain what it is I'm doing wrong.

 public void String replacePirate(String +pirate+, String +english+) {    (class, interface or enum expected)
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(original.length());
    String delimiters = "+-*/(),. ";
    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(+pirate+, delimiters, true);
    while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
        String w = st.nextToken();
        if (w.equals(find)) {
            result.append(+english+);
        } else {
            result.append(w);
        }
    }
    return result.toString();
}

[pbrockway2]

public void String replacePirate(String +pirate+, String +english+) {

I think you mean:

public String replacePirate(String pirate, String english) {

[CodesAway]

 public void String replacePirate(String [COLOR="Red"]+[/COLOR]pirate[COLOR="#ff0000"]+[/COLOR], String [COLOR="#ff0000"]+[/COLOR]english[COLOR="#ff0000"]+[/COLOR]) {    (class, interface or enum expected)
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(original.length());
    String delimiters = "+-*/(),. ";
    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer([COLOR="Red"]+[/COLOR]pirate[COLOR="#ff0000"]+[/COLOR], delimiters, true);
    while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
        String w = st.nextToken();
        if (w.equals(find)) {
            result.append([COLOR="#ff0000"]+[/COLOR]english[COLOR="#ff0000"]+[/COLOR]);
        } else {
            result.append(w);
        }
    }
    return result.toString();
}

Why do you have "+" sign around your parameter names? That could be causing one of the problems.

Another problem might be that the variables "original" and "find" are never declared. I would presume these are fields in your class, but just checking.

[AgentApe]

I have fixed what you have said I shoudl and still get the same error. Hmm.

[CodesAway]

OK, after actually reading your code, your method has two return types "void", and "String". Since you want to return a String, you should change the return type to String.

As for the error, I presume the method is inside a Class, as Java requires.

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class Test
{
	public String replacePirate(String pirate, String english)
	{
		StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(original.length());
		String delimiters = "+-*/(),. ";
		StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(pirate, delimiters, true);
		while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
			String w = st.nextToken();
			if (w.equals(find)) {
				result.append(english);
			} else {
				result.append(w);
			}
		}
		return result.toString();
	}
}

For the above code, I only get two errors, which is that "original" and "find" are never declared.