Question

Pig Latin Translator in Java

The goal here is to read in the characters stored in a text file and create a second text file that contains the original text but with every word converted to “Pig-Latin.” The rules used by Pig Latin are as follows: • If a word begins with a vowel, just as "yay" to the end. For example, "out" is translated into "outyay". • If it begins with a consonant, then we take all consonants before the first vowel and we put them on the end of the word and add “ay”. For example, "which" is translated into "ichwhay". CIT111 Introduction to Programming: Java You can test your results by going to Pig Latin translation sites such as https://www.wordplays.com/pig-latin. Program Requirements The program should operate in a loop, allowing the user to enter new file names, or terminate the program. When an input file name is entered, if the file does not exist, the user should be prompted to enter the name again. When an output file name is entered, if the file does exist, the user should be informed and given the option to overwrite the file or to enter a new name. When both file names have passed muster, the program will perform the translation and create the output file. The program will indicate that the operation has completed and give the user the option to display the output results on the screen. If the user chooses to do so, the output file contents will be displayed. If not, the program will return to the file name prompts. Handle uppercase characters intelligently. For example, “Jack” should appear as “Ackjay” in Pig-Latin, and not as “ackJay”. Punctuation should end up in the right place — either just before the beginning of a word or right at the end of the word.

You should strive to incorporate all aspects of good programming practice. This includes input validation, commenting, use of methods, arrays and collection classes, etc.

Answer 1

main.java

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {

private static Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.print("Enter string to be converted: ");

final String inp = sc.nextLine();

sc.close();

String[] arr = inp.split(" ");

String res = "";

String res2 = "";

for (int x = 0; x < arr.length; x++) {

String res1 = pigLatinConversion(arr[x]);

res += res1 + " ";

res2 = res.toUpperCase().charAt(0) + res.substring(1);

}

System.out.println("Original String: " + inp);

System.out.println("Pig Latin: " + res2 + "\n");

}

public static String pigLatinConversion(String arr) {

String low = arr.toLowerCase();

int positions = -1;

char choices;

for (int x = 0; x < low.length(); x++) {

choices = low.charAt(x);

if (checkForVowel(choices)) {

positions = x;

break;

}

}

if (positions == 0) {

return low + "yay";

} else {

String str1 = low.substring(positions);

String str2 = low.substring(0, positions);

return str1 + str2 + "ay";

}

}

public static Boolean checkForVowel(char choices) {

if (choices == 'a' || choices == 'e' || choices == 'i' || choices == 'o' || choices == 'u' || choices == 'y') {

return true;

}

return false;

}

}

Output: