Strange output?

[William Coville]

I'm currently working on a project that turns a body of text into Pig Latin, in lowercase without punctuation. My code is as follows:

import java.util.*;
public class PigDriver{
  public static void main(String[] args){
   Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
   String t = " ";
   Piglatin p = new Piglatin();
   while(t.length() > 0){
     t = scan.nextLine();
     t = t.toLowerCase();
     p.pigConvert(t);
   }
   p.pigReport();
  }
} 

This is the Driver class.

import java.util.*;
public class Piglatin{
   String message = new String("");
   
   public Piglatin(){
   }

   public String pigConvert(String message){
      StringTokenizer token = new StringTokenizer(message);
      char[] exclusion = {'.', '!', '?', ',', ':', ';', '(', ')', '$', '&', '*', '%'};
      char[] messages = message.toCharArray();
      for (int j = 0; j < messages.length - 1; j++){
         for (int k = 0; k < exclusion.length; k++){
            if (messages[j] == exclusion[k]){
               for (int m = 0; m < messages.length - 1; m++){
                  messages[j] = messages[j + 1];
                  }
            }
        }
      }
      message = messages.toString();
      String t = new String("");
      for (int j = 0; j < token.countTokens(); j++){
         t = token.nextToken();
         if (t.charAt(0) == 'a' || t.charAt(0) == 'e' || t.charAt(0) == 'i' || t.charAt(0) == 'o' || t.charAt(0) == 'u'){
              t += "ay ";
              message += t;
              if (token.hasMoreTokens() == false){break;}
      }
         else {Consanant(t);}
   }
   return message;
   }

   public void Consanant(String t){
      char first = t.charAt(0);
      char[] piggle = t.toCharArray();
      for (int j = 0; j < piggle.length - 1; j++){
         piggle[j] = piggle[j + 1];
      }
      String latin = new String("");
      String pigs = piggle.toString();
      latin = pigs + first + "ay ";
      message += latin;
      
   }

   public void pigReport(){
     System.out.println(message);
   }

}

This is the actual Piglatin class. It does pretty much all of the heavy lifting for the program.

The problem comes when the program is run. It compiles with no difficulty, but when it is supposed to give output, it puts in a set of strange characters.

For example: given the input "Eek! Scary Skeletons," the printed result is "[C@14eac69say."

If anyone has insight as to what the problem could be, I'd be glad to hear it.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

That strange output is how Java outputs an array.

These two lines do not do the same thing:

System.out.println(piggle.toString());
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(piggle));

The first outputs your "strange" output. The second outputs the characters separated by commas. Neither seems like what you want so try a loop.

[William Coville]

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:That strange output is how Java outputs an array.

These two lines do not do the same thing:

System.out.println(piggle.toString());
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(piggle));

The first outputs your "strange" output. The second outputs the characters separated by commas. Neither seems like what you want so try a loop.

That seemed to fix the specific output I was getting. There are some other problems with the code though. It doesn't even touch words that begin with vowels. Is something wrong with my if statement?

In addition, the code seems to only be changing one word in a string, despite the use of a String Tokenizer in the Piglatin class being used to split a string into multiple tokens, and the nextToken command being placed inside a loop. Does anyone happen to know how to fix these details?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Please use a thread title which tells people what the question is about. You can find better thread titles here, for example.
And it just so happens that thread title has “Pig Latin” in. Have a look how that other person solved Pig Latin and it might help with your problem.