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Thread: Simple code error

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    Default Simple code error

    I am getting an error with this code

     import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class five
    {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
     
    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
    String sentence = "Please enter a line of text. No punctuation please";
     
    System.out.print(sentence);
     
    String s1, firstWord, firstLetter, endSentence, newSentence;
    s1 = keyboard.nextLine();
     
    int wordEndLoc = s1.indexOf(' ');
     
    //retrieve the first word to be replaced
    firstWord = s1.substring(0,wordEndLoc);
     
    //get the second part of the sentence without the first word and trim trailing spaces
    endSentence = s1.substring(wordEndLoc,s1.length()).trim();
     
    //combine the second part with the first word at the end
    newSentence = endSentence + " " + firstWord;
     
    //retrieve he first letter of the newly organized sentence, and capitalize it as well
    firstLetter = newSentence.substring(0,1).toUpperCase();
     
    //again, get the second part of the sentence (without the first letter)
    endSentence = newSentence.substring(1,s1.length());
     
     
    //combine the first letter with the second part
    newSentence = firstLetter + endSentence;
    String mess2 = "I have replaced that line to read: ";
    System.out.print(mess2);
    System.out.print(newSentence);
    }
    }

    My output says
    Please enter a line of text. No punctuation please
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
    at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)
    at five.main(five.java:18)


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    Default Re: Simple code error

    indexOf returns -1 if the search item was not found, so if what a space isn't found you will see this exception when your code continues to try and parse the string.

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    Default Re: Simple code error

    Hmm. So what do I need to do to fix this? Im sorry, I am very new at this...Thank you for the reply

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    Check and make sure the value is not -1
    if ( wordEndLoc == -1 ){
    // most likely the user entered a single word or just pressed the enter button (the s1 string is empty).
    //Deal with each however you wish your program to respond to each.
    }

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