Turning first word in scentence toUpperCase(nextWord.charAt(0)). Help?

[tor-einar frostad]

I've been trying for several hours now... Can't get this line of code to work. It prints nextWord as it would without the code. It compiles just fine and my blueJ debugger leaves me with no clue.

                storyList.set(i+1, Character.toUpperCase(nextWord.charAt(0)) + nextWord.substring(1));
                System.out.println(nextWord);

Heres my whole for-loop:

        for(int i = 0; i < storyList.size()-1; i++){
            String word = storyList.get(i);
            String nextWord = storyList.get(i+1);
            if ((word.contains("!") || word.contains(".") || word.contains("?")) && (nextWord.length() > 1))
            {
                storyList.set(i+1, Character.toUpperCase(nextWord.charAt(0)) + nextWord.substring(1));
                System.out.println(nextWord);
            }
            
            String randomAdjektiv = adjectivesList.get(random.nextInt(adjectivesList.size()));
            String adjektiv = word.replace("ADJEKTIV", randomAdjektiv);
            storyList.set(i, adjektiv);
        }

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

What you are doing is setting an element in a List (why the + 1?), then printing nextWord. Now, if nextWord is a String, then it cannot change. Rather than printing nextWord, print the List and see what happens.

[tor-einar frostad]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Welcome to the Ranch

What you are doing is setting an element in a List (why the + 1?), then printing nextWord. Now, if nextWord is a String, then it cannot change. Rather than printing nextWord, print the List and see what happens.

Thanks!
The +1 one is there because the integer I want to replace is the one after the the int index, wich contains() the characters "!", "." and "?". String nextWord = myList.get(i+1). The variable is declared inside the for-loop. So it should work, right??

[Knute Snortum]

You set nextWord in line 3 then without changing it, you print it in line 7. Is this what you expected?

[tor-einar frostad]

Knute Snortum wrote:You set nextWord in line 3 then without changing it, you print it in line 7. Is this what you expected?

Guess it didn't work because the variable doesn't change with the index given to it. I thought it did. I would have to declare it again before printing it. It worked when I checked my list. Thank you

[Campbell Ritchie]

Well done

[Guillermo Ishi]

If you break it up on different lines instead of chaining functions together you will have better luck with the debuggers I'm familiar with. No reason to not be able to debug it.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Guillermo Ishi wrote:. . . No reason to not be able to debug it.

There might be; OP said he was using BlueJ


You may get the impression I don't like BlueJ. That would be correct.