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Thread: PigLatinTranslator produces no output

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    Default PigLatinTranslator produces no output

    This program is supposed to read a sentence of user input and translate it to piglatin by appending "yay" to a word beginning with a vowell and for words beginning with consonants or consonant blends ("br", "tw", "st" etc..) moving the consonant/blend to the end then adding an "ay". My version of the program does not produce any output. But it does prompt me to type in a sentence (which is in the do loop of my main method). Any help, please

    main:
    //PigLatin.java
     
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class PigLatin
    {
      public static void main (String[] args)
      {
        String sentence, result, another;
     
        Scanner scan = new Scanner (System.in);
     
        do
        {
          System.out.println ();
          System.out.println ("Enter a sentence (no punctuation):");
          sentence = scan.nextLine();
     
          System.out.println ();
          result = PigLatinTranslator.translate (sentence);
          System.out.println ("That sentence in Pig Latin is:");
          System.out.println (result);
     
          System.out.println();
          System.out.print ("Translate another sentence (y/n)?");
          another = scan.nextLine();
        }
        while (another.equalsIgnoreCase("y"));
      }
    }

    And the called method:
    //PigLatinTranslator.java
     
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class PigLatinTranslator
    {
      //translates a sentence of words into piglatin
      public static String translate (String sentence)
      {
        String result = "";
     
        sentence = sentence.toLowerCase();
     
        Scanner scan = new Scanner (sentence);
     
        while (scan.hasNext());
        {
          result += translateWord (scan.next());
          result += " ";
        }
     
      return result;
      }
     
      //translates ONE word into piglatin. Using the language rules of
      //that language.
      private static String translateWord (String word)
      {
        String result = "";
     
        if (beginsWithVowel (word))
            result = word + "yay";
        else
            if (beginsWithBlend (word))
                result = word.substring(2) + word.substring(0,2) + "ay";
            else
                result = word.substring(1) + word.charAt(0) + "ay";
     
        return result;
      }
     
      //Finds out if the word begins with a vowell
      private static boolean beginsWithVowel (String word)
      {
        String vowels = "aeiou";
     
        char letter = word.charAt(0);
     
        return (vowels.indexOf (letter) != -1);
      }
     
      //Finds out if the word begins with any of the two character
      //consonant blends
      private static boolean beginsWithBlend (String word)
      {
        return ( word.startsWith ("bl") || word.startsWith ("sc") || 
                 word.startsWith ("br") || word.startsWith ("sh") || 
                 word.startsWith ("ch") || word.startsWith ("sk") || 
                 word.startsWith ("cl") || word.startsWith ("sl") ||
                 word.startsWith ("cr") || word.startsWith ("sn") ||
                 word.startsWith ("dr") || word.startsWith ("sm") ||
                 word.startsWith ("dw") || word.startsWith ("sp") ||
                 word.startsWith ("fl") || word.startsWith ("sq") ||
                 word.startsWith ("fr") || word.startsWith ("st") ||
                 word.startsWith ("gl") || word.startsWith ("sw") ||
                 word.startsWith ("gr") || word.startsWith ("th") ||
                 word.startsWith ("kl") || word.startsWith ("tr") ||
                 word.startsWith ("ph") || word.startsWith ("tw") ||
                 word.startsWith ("pl") || word.startsWith ("wh") ||
                 word.startsWith ("pr") || word.startsWith ("wr") );
      }
    }


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    Default Re: PigLatinTranslator produces no output

    How have you tried debugging the code to see what it is doing?
    Try adding some calls to the println() method that prints out the value of all variables as their value is changed.
    Also print out the value returned by all methods so you can see what the program is doing.
    For example what does the beginsWithBlend() method return for the String passed to it.

    --- Update ---

    One potential problem I see is that there are several blocks of code inside if statements that are not enclosed in {}s. Using {}s will ensure that the placement of blocks of code will be where you want it to be.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: PigLatinTranslator produces no output

    Hi Norm. Well after much experimenting I changed to translate(sentence); in the main method to translateWord(sentence); sort of bypassing the translate method entirely. I changed translateWord to public and ran it and now if works finally yaay! But because .toLowerCase(); is in the bypassed method it all prints out with the capitals now and it doesnt process a sentence one word at a time, just considers it to be one whole word. Heres an example of what its doing:

    craig@craig-laptop:~/Documents/panda/java3$ java PigLatin
     
    Enter a sentence (no punctuation):
    No I wont enter a sentence
     
    That sentence in Pig Latin is:
    o I wont enter a sentenceNay
     
    Translate another sentence (y/n)?y
     
    Enter a sentence (no punctuation):
    Oh fine I'll keep entering sentences then.
     
    That sentence in Pig Latin is:
    h fine I'll keep entering sentences then.Oay
     
    Translate another sentence (y/n)?

    I'm going to keep trying this one, but if you have a tip for me that would be great..

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    Default Re: PigLatinTranslator produces no output

    The reason for this is because the method you bypassed doesn't just set the sentence to lower case letters it also does something else. Do as Norm mentioned and put some System.out.println() calls throughout your methods. In this manner you can narrow down where the code is doing behavior you don't want.

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    Default Re: PigLatinTranslator produces no output

    craig@craig-laptop:~$ cd Documents/panda/java3
    craig@craig-laptop:~/Documents/panda/java3$ javac PigLatinTranslator.java
    craig@craig-laptop:~/Documents/panda/java3$ javac PigLatin.java
    craig@craig-laptop:~/Documents/panda/java3$ java PigLatin
     
    Enter a sentence (no punctuation):
    Ok then fine I will enter a sentence
     
    That sentence in Pig Latin is:
    okyay enthay inefay iyay illway enteryay ayay entencesay 
    okyay enthay inefay iyay illway enteryay ayay entencesay yay
    false
    true
     
    Translate another sentence (y/n)?n
    craig@craig-laptop:~/Documents/panda/java3$

    Thanks for the help guys. I have found there was a semicolon here in my code: while (scan.hasNext()); which I got rid of and it worked. Debugging tip really worked well I will be using that alot now
    //PigLatin.java
     
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class PigLatin
    {
      public static void main (String[] args)
      {
        String sentence, result, another;
     
        Scanner scan = new Scanner (System.in);
     
        do
        {
          System.out.println ();
          System.out.println ("Enter a sentence (no punctuation):");
          sentence = scan.nextLine();
     
          System.out.println ();
          result = PigLatinTranslator.translate (sentence);
          System.out.println ("That sentence in Pig Latin is:");
          System.out.println (result);
     
          System.out.println (PigLatinTranslator.translateWord (result));
          System.out.println (PigLatinTranslator.beginsWithBlend (result));
          System.out.println (PigLatinTranslator.beginsWithVowel (result));
     
          System.out.println();
          System.out.print ("Translate another sentence (y/n)?");
          another = scan.nextLine();
        }
        while (another.equalsIgnoreCase("y"));
     
      }
    }

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