P-language

[Zelaine]

I found an exercise in a book, that I just can't solve. "In the so called p-language all vowels are duplicated and a p is placed between the two duplicated vowels. Consonants and other characters are not changed. Write a program that reads a text that contains a message written in p-language, and then translates it to English." Can you help me with this? Because I just don't know how to do it :( I tried doing it with character arrays, and then moving the elements around, but as soon as I try to print the array out I just get some strange signs and numbers.

[gimbal2]

No code = no help.

[Zelaine]

public class Tjena{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        
    }
}

[jim829]

You've got to be kidding me!!!!

Regards,
Jim

[Norm]

try to print the array out I just get some strange signs and numbers.

Try this:

System.out.println("an ID "+ java.util.Arrays.toString(theArrayName));

[Junky]

You've got to be kidding me!!!!

At least it is better than those who whine "I don't know where to start".

[gimbal2]

At least it is better than those who whine "I don't know where to start".

I don't agree, this is a far bigger insult; to the OP and to the people he's asking for "help".

[Zelaine]

I apologize for being so rude and disrespectful earlier. Here is the actual code that's not working :(

import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class Bajs{
	public static void main(String[] args){
		String s = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a sentence or a word"), t = s.toUpperCase();
		int removedElements = 0;
		char text[] = t.toCharArray();
		for(int x=0;x<text.length-2;x++){
			if(ärVokal(text[x]) && text[x+1] == 'P' && text[x] == text[x+2]){
				text = removingElements(text, x);
			}
		}
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, text);
	}
	
	static boolean ärVokal(char c){
		char vokaler[] = {'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U', 'Y', 'Å', 'Ä', 'Ö'};
		for(int x=0;x<vokaler.length;x++)
			if(vokaler[x] == c)
				return true;
 		return false;
	}
	
	static char[] removingElements(char[] text, int index){
		char newarray[] = text;
		for(int x=index;x<index+3;x++){
			for(int y=x;y<newarray.length;y++){
				newarray[x] = newarray[x+1];
			}
		}
		return newarray;
	}
}

[Norm]

that's not working

Did you try using the Arrays class's method that I posted?

[Zelaine]

Did you try using the Arrays class's method that I posted?

Yes.

[Norm]

Do you have a problem speaking english? Perhaps if you used Google translate you could create a better answer.

[Zelaine]

I apologize for not being among the 360 million people on this planet who have English as their native language, but I try to speak it as best as I can.

I tried to do what you said and I did not get any strange signs or numbers anymore, however the characters were output like this for example: [A, M, S, P, P, S], and they did not form the words they were supposed to.

[Norm]

they did not form the words they were supposed to.

If you want to convert an array of char to a String, look at the String class. It has constructors and methods that will do that.