Morse code translation?

**Koba** · 10-09-2011, 07:16 PM

Hey guys,

So I've been working on a code that allows for a user input of English to translate to morse code and a user input of morse code to translate to English. English to morse was easy enough, but morse to English is proving far more difficult. I'm not quite sure how to designate each morse 'letter' as its own, if you know what I mean. I feel the split method might be useful, because I could split the user input at each space or | character, but I'm not very good with coding a split and I keep getting a bunch of nonsense when I test my code.

Does anyone have an idea as to what I could do?

**Fubarable** · 10-09-2011, 07:33 PM

Split could work well. Let's see sample input, your code, and your errors.

**Koba** · 10-09-2011, 07:45 PM

String m;

m = Input.getString ( " Type a sentence in morse, separating spaces with a space. " );

String [] test = m.split(" ");

for ( int x = 0; x < test.length; x++ )

System.out.println( " Test is " + test[x] );

I tested a normal sentence first, like "Morse test", but I got back a bunch of gibberish. Something like [Ljava.lang.String;@16930e2. Perhaps I'm not using it correctly as an array?

**Koba** · 10-09-2011, 08:27 PM

This didn't post the first time I tried, so I'll try again:

String m;

m = Input.getString ( " Type a sentence in morse, separating spaces with a space. " );

String [] test = m.split(" ");

for ( int b = 0; b < test.length; b++ )
{
System.out.println( " Test is " + test[b] );
}

I'm getting a bizarre [Ljava.lang.String error when I test this. My input, by the way, was "Morse Test". Any ideas? Perhaps I'm not formatting it correctly as an array?