increment letters from a string

[iluvjava]

Hi all, i need help with this code im trying to produce. I've been searching google for days without finding any answers so please youve got to help me understand. The idea is to encrypt a string inputted by the user

I wish to increment the letters at odd positions by 5 in a string (only the letters..the other characters must stay the same)

for example : 2345f57hBFE&&/f3 should result in 2345f57mBKE&&/f3

example : 'h' which occupies position 7 has been incremented by 5 to become m in the new string.

the thing is I have absolutely no idea where to start!
I've been working with the string class a bit on blueJ but i know only how to increment numbers with the ++ and still i can only do a number at a time. How can I do this with a whole string?

[Eranga]

Take the letter and the index of it, get the int value of the character and do the increment. Then replace the latter with the current one, you've calculated.

Did you try anything so far?

[iluvjava]

The thing is... it is not only 1 letter from a string... it has to be multiple letters that occupy specific (odd) positions. How can I increment multiple letters from different positions at the same time?

Now i know indexOf is in the string class and I need somehow to equal that to an int....and then replace the string by a new one...but like I said, i have no idea how to get started on the actual code.

Could you point me in the right direction? Ive been trying to write the pseudo code for a while but I got this blank page staring at me.

[iluvjava]

i got the idea so far

public class increment
{

public static void main (String args[]) {


      String str = "Welcome ";
      System.out.println(str);

      // charAt method returns the corresponding character to the passed index
      // in parentheses
      char letter = str.charAt(0), letter1 = str.charAt(1), letter2 = str
          .charAt(2), letter3 = str.charAt(3), letter4 = str.charAt(4), letter5 = str
          .charAt(5), letter6 = str.charAt(6), letter7 = str.charAt(7);

          letter2++;letter2++;letter2++;letter2++;letter2++;
      System.out.println(letter+""+letter1+""+letter2+""+letter3+""+letter4+""+letter5+""+letter6+""+letter7); 




}
}

this make the 3rd letter change from 'l' to 'q'

but the thing is...the string inputted could be longer than 7 characters...that would make my code useless..also is there a way to increment a letter 5 times
other than doing letter1++;letter1++;letter1++;letter1++;letter1++; .... I need something like a loop dont I?

please share your expertise with me everyone.

[DarrylBurke]

> is there a way to increment a letter 5 times
Not '5 times' but 'by 5'

letter1 += 5

Be aware that if done indiscriminately, you can end up with characters that aren't letters.

> I need something like a loop dont I?
Yup, it sure looks like you do.
Control Flow Statements (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)

db

[iluvjava]

okay with all your instructions which im really thankful for sharing with me... and after a bit of browsing the String class... ive managed to get this so far :

      public class Main {
 
      /**
  
        * Converts a String to a character array
 
        */
 
      public void convertStringToCharArray() {

       

      String str ;

       

      System.out.println("Enter a string to increment");
  
      str = Clavier.lireString(); // this is a class made by my teacher which is similar to the scanner class to read inputted keyboard entrys by the user


      char[] cArray = str.toCharArray();
       

      for (char c : cArray)
 
      
      System.out.println(c+=5);

       
      }

      /**

        * Starts the program

        *

        * @param args the command line arguments

        */

      public static void main(String[] args) {

      new Main().convertStringToCharArray();

      }
 
      }

this prints out every letter of the string incremented by 5 only vertically..

like

'abc' prints out :

'f'
'g'
'h'

i know it's my loop that is incorrect...how can i print out a new 'normal' string ?

[DarrylBurke]

So use print(...) instead of println(...)

db

[iluvjava]

okay so no ive got

String str ;
        
System.out.println("Enter a string");
str = Clavier.lireString(); //similar to scanner class


char[] cArray = str.toCharArray();
for (char c : cArray )
System.out.print(c+=5);

the input of abcdef gives me fghijk which is good only i wish to increment only pair positions in the string so i need something like a charAt(i)=i+2 in the for loop only i can't implement it in the for loop i have already. somehow.
please help

[Eranga]

What you say is not clear to me. Are you want to increment the number by 2 or 5? What you mean by "pair position"?

[iluvjava]

i want to increment it by 5...sorry for my english when i said pair position i meant odd position in the string.

which means only charAt (1,3,5,7....etc...) gets incremented

example : 'apple' = 'aupq'

i need a for loop to do that, by the way my teacher doesn't want us to use arrays for this method.

so far i wrote:

public class Main {

public static String incrementerDeCinqImpaires (String chaine) {


char j = chaine.charAt(1);
char x = chaine.charAt(3);
char o = chaine.charAt(5);


j+=5;
x+=5;
o+=5;


System.out.println(x);
System.out.println(j);
System.out.println(o);
String   tmpString = chaine.replace( chaine.charAt(1), j );
String   tmpString2 = tmpString.replace( tmpString.charAt(3), x );
String   tmpString3 = tmpString2.replace( tmpString2.charAt(5), o );
System.out.println( "Original = " + chaine );
System.out.println( "Result   = " + tmpString3 );



return tmpString3;

}
public static void main (String args [] ) {
        
        
       System.out.println (incrementerDeCinqImpaires("adam"));
       
        
  
    }
}

The thing is i need a "for" loop (which has been a nightmare for me trying to figure out how to make it) in order to increment every odd positioned char in the string.

So all I need really is to sum up what i posted above inside a for loop (or more). Then just add ifs and elses so i can increment only letters.

[Eranga]

Rather doing it on odd position, can do for the complete word in a loop? Did you get what I say? Just forget about the potion, do it for the complete word in a for loop.

[iluvjava]

i can't man , the assignement is to do only odd positions

[Eranga]

Do you know about loops?

[iluvjava]

yes i know i need a for loop but i cant make one that does it what i want it to

[Eranga]

That's because you didn't think about the basis, you try to start from the final solution. How to get it, and then stuck on that.

[Eranga]

Look at the following code segment and try to understand the code. Let me know if you stuck on anything. I've added some comments there for your reference.

public class CharReplacer {

    private static String incrementerDeCinqImpaires(String chaine) {

        // Store the original string to later reference, think why?
        String str = chaine;

        // Get the each leter of the string in a loop, do you know this?
        for (int index = 0; index < str.length(); index++) {
            // Who to check that a numbere is odd or even?
            if (index % 2 != 0) {
                // Same what you've done
                char ch = str.charAt(index);
                ch += 5;

                str = str.replace(chaine.charAt(index), ch);
            }
        }
        return str;
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        System.out.println(incrementerDeCinqImpaires("adam"));
    }
}

[Eranga]

Please think about the naming conversions as well, and about access modifiers. How to handle them.

[DarrylBurke]

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db

[Eranga]

Oh no, why I've waste my time Darryl for this man.

[iluvjava]

Today 07:50 AM
Eranga Oh no, why I've waste my time Darryl for this man.
Today 01:30 AM
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db

There's nothing wrong with posting in different forums...it's a free world ain't it?

And Eranga i don't understand what you think that you did to help me yet so that you may have "lost" your time.