Assignment help (String manupilation)

[umaza]

I have an assignment in which you write a sentence and you have to convert any word within the sentence (String) that ends in "or" into "our", for example "color" into "colour"

So if I input "My pant's color is yellow" it will output "My pant's colour is yellow"

I don't understand how to do it.

Condition for changing word is:
if the word is more than four letters and
if the word ends in "or" such that the letter before "or" is a consonant
'Y' should be treated as a vowel

My syntax so far:

import java.io.* ;
public class IamCanadian
{
  public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException
  {
    BufferedReader objReader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (System.in)); 
    
    String americanSentence;
    
    do
    {
    System.out.println("Input a sentence in an American dialect (press quit to exit)");
    americanSentence = objReader.readLine();
    
    Translation canadian = new Translation(americanSentence);
    
    String finalSentence = canadian.getCanuck();
    
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println(finalSentence);
    }
    while (!(americanSentence.toLowerCase().equals("quit")));
   
  }
}

class Translation
{
  private String yankee;
  private String canuck; 
  
  Translation(String yankee)
  {
    this.yankee = yankee;
    translate();
  }
  
  private void translate()
  {
    
  }
  
  String getCanuck()
  {
    return canuck; 
  }
}

I have tried searching how to split String, but I always get results which have to do with arrays, which is the next lesson in school so we are not supposed to use array.
I need to use indexOf, charAt, and substring. I have tried but always get something wrong.
I don't know how to start in the translate method.

Full Question for assignment is here

Edit:
@DarrilBurke - thanks, didn't know that

Also, I solved it, all I needed to do was use the scanner class with StringBuffer, thanks anyway

[Norm]

I don't know how to start in the translate method.

Can you describe in small, simple steps (pseudo code) what the code should do?

When you get the list of steps then you can start writing the code.

[DarrylBurke]

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