Thread: Piglatin Converter

Hello all,
I am in an intro to Java class right now and I have an assignment due later today that converts a body of text to piglatin.

We are given a driver class which cannot be changed.

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(); } }

and I have the following code written:

import java.util.StringTokenizer; import java.lang.String;   public class Piglatin{   StringBuffer cookies;     public Piglatin(){ }   public StringBuffer pigConvert(String m) { StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(); String delimiters = " ,.:;()[]{}\"'!@#$%^&*"; StringTokenizer lexer; String token;   lexer = new StringTokenizer(m, delimiters, true);   while (lexer.hasMoreTokens()) { token = lexer.nextToken(); if (delimiters.indexOf(token) > -1) result.append(token); else result.append(transformToken(token)); }       cookies = result; return cookies;   }     public static String transformToken(String original) { StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(); String vowels = "aeiou";   String vowelRule = "way"; String consonantRule = "ay";   if (vowels.indexOf(original.substring(0, 1).toLowerCase()) > -1) { result.append(original); result.append(vowelRule); } else { result.append(original.substring(1)); result.append(original.substring(0, 1)); result.append(consonantRule); }   return result.toString(); }   public void pigReport(){ System.out.println("something"); }     }

The problem is that I can't print the converted text to the console. Normally I would just try to write a print statement into the method that's converting it, but I must follow the driver class. I wanted to make a stringbuffer (in this case cookies) that would exist outside of the pigConvert method, but when I try to print this it prints nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much!