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Thread: Substring function

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    Default Substring function

    Ok so i need to make a function that using the same things as the substing method.
    Here the problem:
    The substring command prompts the user for two integer indexes. It then replaces the result string with the set of characters in the result string that includes the character at the starting index up to the end index.

    Constraint: We cant use the substring method in the Java String Class and we have to use a for loop to do this.

    I have this so far.
    public String substring(String result)
    {
    Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter inital> ");
    int inital = scan.nextInt();
    System.out.println("Enter end> ");
    int end= scan.nextInt();
    String[] c= new String[result.length()];///creates an array 
    String newresult="";//makes a new string to hold the new result 
    char letter = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i<c.length; i++)//
    	{
    		letter=result.charAt(i);//gets the index of the chara
    		c[i]=String.valueOf(letter);//get the chara of the index
    		if(letter>=inital && letter<=end)//if any of the chara in the array equals the chara that is to replaced then
    		{
    				newresult+=c[i];//changes the chara
    		}
     
    	}
    	return newresult;
    }
    It compiles but im not getting anything....
    Last edited by helloworld922; November 12th, 2009 at 11:09 AM.


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    Default Re: Substring function

    You don't have a main method. I don't know how you're going to get the initial string, but I'd imagine maybe reading it in from the user.

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    	Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
    	System.out.println("Enter a string: ");
    	System.out.println(substring(scan.nextLine()));
    }

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    Default Re: Substring function

    		if(letter>=inital && letter<=end)//if any of the chara in the array equals the chara that is to replaced then
    		{
    				newresult+=c[i];//changes the chara
    		}

    In the above code, you are comparing a character to an integer, rather than an int to an int (the result is a comparison of the char ascii value to the int). You should rather do the comparison to 'i' rather than letter. An easier way overall is to create a char array of the length of the substring, then fill in the array by iterating through the parameter string starting at the initial and ending at the end, returning a new string created with the character array

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