Kind of stuck on starting a problem..

Here is the question:

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Write a program that will read a line of text as input and then display the line with the first word moved to the end of the line. For example, a possible
sample interaction with the user might be
Enter a line of text. No punctuation please. Java is the language I have rephrased that line to read: Is the language Java
Assume that there is no space before the first word and that the end of the first word is indicated by a blank, not by a comma or other punctuation. Note that the new first word must begin with a capital letter.

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From looking at the question i'm guessing that I need to somehow get my program to recognize what the first word in the inputted sentence is. How exactly would I do this? I'm guessing it has something to do with stopping when the program reads an empty space like " " but i'm not sure how to do this.

Perhaps finding the length of the first word and than printing all of the characters of the first word after the entered sentence? But than I don't know how to get rid of the first word from the start of the sentence :confused:

All I really need is to know how to split and recognize words in a sentence. I know there was a split feature in python that recognizes words because of blank spaces in between them: " "

The String class also has a split method. When faced with problems like these, it's always a good idea to check out the API, there's a good possibility that what you're trying to do is already implemented. Just google java classname, usually the first hit is the API.

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Originally Posted by kmjt

All I really need is to know how to split and recognize words in a sentence. I know there was a split feature in python that recognizes words because of blank spaces in between them: " "

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Uhm, see the API docs for String and its split(regex) method, maybe?

Edit: Too slow!

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Originally Posted by kmjt

All I really need is to know how to split and recognize words in a sentence. I know there was a split feature in python that recognizes words because of blank spaces in between them: " "

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the String class has a split method

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String s[] =  myString.split("\\s+");
System.out.println( "This is your first word: " + s[0] )

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Or you can go the longer way. Use indexOf() to get the index of the first space. After that do a substring() .

check out string tokenizer, this will let you break the sentence up into individual words, then you could put each word in an array and re-arrange that. Just a thought

Please No! StringTokenizer has a load of problems (not the smallest, although most well known, of them is it's inability to properly handle non-ASCII character sets) and its use has been officially discouraged (and the class all but deprecated) for a decade or more now.

Your response is exactly why I joined this forum. To gain more knowledge other than what is thought by my professors. Because I have been to both a community college and am in a very well known technical school now and I have still been taught to use the tokenizer. So thanks I will start looking into better options.

The easiest way to do this would be to use split(" ") on the input string to store it in an array, then loop through the array printing the items, obviously you have to figure out how to print the words correctly, but this should be more than enough to start.

While slightly more challenging, but still a fine way is to use str.substring() or charAt() to loop through until you find the first space, then from 0 to when the first space is found is the first first number, which you can extract with the substring method.

My 0.02 cents

Since you will need to use charAt and substring for the first letter anyway, I would use charAt and substring for the whole thing and not use split. Then you do not need a loop and if you are masochistic you can reduce it to a single line of code (after getting the input).

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Originally Posted by Junky

My 0.02 cents

Since you will need to use charAt and substring for the first letter anyway,

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Huh? What does the first "letter" have to do with anything?

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I would use charAt and substring for the whole thing and not use split. Then you do not need a loop and if you are masochistic you can reduce it to a single line of code (after getting the input).

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You're right in one thing though. since it will simply be moving the first word to the end, charAt to get the location of the first space, two substrings, and the addition of a space (and possibly the handling of any punctuation at the end of the sentence if necessary) would be better.

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Originally Posted by masijade

Huh? What does the first "letter" have to do with anything?

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The first letter of the second word (which becomes the first word) needs to be converted to uppercase and to do that the charAt and substring methods are needed.

Missed that part, I guess, but then the first letter of the last word (I would assume) would also have to be lowercased.