The overall goal of what I'm trying to do is to compare a string to index 0 of an array (that is held within an arraylist), and if the strings are the same (ignoring case), call a method that matches the case of the string to the translated word (held at index 1 of the array inside an arraylist). When I run this code and I print out the contents of my translated arraylist, I get all "no match" characters. I'm assuming this is because I'm not accessing the index I want in the correct manner. Please help!
public static String translate(String word, ArrayList<String[]> wordList) {
if (word == "." || word == "!" || word == ";" || word == ":") {
return word;
}
for (int i = 0; i < wordList.size(); i++) {
String origWord = wordList.get(i)[0];
String transWord = wordList.get(i)[1];
if (word.equalsIgnoreCase(origWord)) { //FIXME may need to change if you need to switch from translated to original
String translated = matchCase(word, transWord);
return translated;
}
}
String noMatch = Character.toString(Config.LINE_CHAR);
return noMatch;
}
Sample Data and expected result
word = "hello"
wordList.get(i)[0] = "Hello"
wordList.get(i)[1] = "Hola"
(word and wordList.get(i)[0] match, so the next step is executed)
match case method is called and returns the translated word with the same case as the original word ->
translated = "hola"
returns the translated word.
(the for loop iterates through the entire wordList until it finds a match, then it calls the translate method)
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Match Case's Code
public static String matchCase(String template, String original) {
String matched = "";
if (template.length() > original.length()) {
for (int i = 1; i <= original.length(); i++) {
if (template.charAt(i-1) >= 'a' && template.charAt(i-1) <= 'z') {
if (i == original.length()) {
matched += original.substring(original.length() - 1).toLowerCase();
}
else {
matched += original.substring((i-1), i).toLowerCase();
}
}
else if (template.charAt(i-1) >= 'A' && template.charAt(i-1) <= 'Z') {
if (i == original.length()) {
matched += original.substring(original.length() - 1).toUpperCase();
}
else {
matched += original.substring((i-1), i).toUpperCase();
}
}
}
return matched;
}
else if (template.length() < original.length()) {
int o;
original.toLowerCase();
for (int i = 1; i <= template.length(); i++) {
if (template.charAt(i-1) >= 'a' && template.charAt(i-1) <= 'z') {
if (i == template.length()) {
matched += original.substring(original.length() - 1).toLowerCase();
}
else {
matched += original.substring((i-1), i).toLowerCase();
}
}
else if (template.charAt(i-1) >= 'A' && template.charAt(i-1) <= 'Z') {
if (i == template.length()) {
matched += original.substring(original.length() - 1).toUpperCase();
}
else {
matched += original.substring((i-1), i).toUpperCase();
}
}
String newMatched = matched + original.substring(i, original.length() - 1);
matched = newMatched;
newMatched = "";
}
return matched;
}
return original;
}
