Question

So I’m having a problem doing an assignment for my java class. The purpose is to create a program that uses a switch statement to convert letters from a string to their phonetics. i.e, A or a becomes Alpha.

The problem I’m having is the switch statement stops reading at the first whitespace in the string. How do i get it to continue reading the string without stopping at whitespaces
(i.e ” “)?

Basically user inputs a string “Hi Hi” the output should be “Hotel Indiana Hotel Indiana”

The problem I’m having is it only gives “Hotel Indiana” stopping at the first whitespace i think at least.

This is the code i have so far:(I cut out most of the letters/numbers to save space and kept what i thought was most important for answering the question.)

    import java.util.*;
    public class SwitchStatement {

/**
 * @param args
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println ("Enter a message: ");
    String message = keyboard.next(); 
    for(int i = 0 ; i < message.length(); i++) 
      switch(message.charAt(i)) { 
    case 'a':
    case 'A':  
        System.out.print("Alpha"); 
        break; 
    case 'b':
    case 'B':  
        System.out.print("Bravo"); 
        break;
    case ' ':  
                System.out.print(" "); 
                break;
    default:  
                System.out.print(message.charAt(i)); 
                break;
}

}
}

Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

String message = keyboard.next(); reads one word at the time of call separated by space (” “).

Use String message = keyboard.nextLine(); to read the whole line including spaces within.