I have been working on a pig latin converter. If a letter starts with a vowel or number it should end with way if it begins with a consonant it should revert the letters so the first one begins with aeiouy like chair should be airchay. Everything in my program works but can someone tell me why im getting aircay instead of airchay?
karodhill 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to PostHello,
You would need to build a special test for consonant pairs (ch,gl,gh,fl sh,th,st,sp kn,sn,sl,pl,wh, and any others you can think of...) like you did for the vowels. You will need to put it before the single consonant process to eliminate them before you get to that part. Also you …
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sorry was looking for edit couldnt find it here is code.
'determine if the word starts with a vowel, consonant, or numeric
'display original word with vowel as piglatin word add "-way" to end of word
'consonants to end of word with 'ay" added to end of consonants
'if words are numeric add "-way" to end of numeric expression
If strOriginalWord.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper() Like "[AEIOU]" Then
strPigLatin = strOriginalWord & "-way"
lblConvertedword.Text = strPigLatin
ElseIf strOriginalWord.Substring(0, 1) Like "[0-9]" Then
strPigLatin = strOriginalWord & "-way"
lblConvertedword.Text = strPigLatin
Else
strPigLatin = Mid(strOriginalWord, 3) & Mid(strOriginalWord, 1, 1) & "-ay"
lblConvertedword.Text = strPigLatin
End If
txtWordenter.Focus()
End Sub
Private Sub ConvertPigLatin(ByVal wordConvert As String, ByRef pigLatinWord As String)
If wordConvert.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper Like "[AEIOU]" Then
pigLatinWord = wordConvert & "way"
End If
Dim strTemp As String = ""
If wordConvert.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper Like "[!AEIOU]" Then
Do While wordConvert <> ""
strTemp = strTemp + wordConvert(0)
wordConvert = wordConvert.Remove(0, 1)
If wordConvert.ToUpper Like "[AEIOUY]*" Then
pigLatinWord = wordConvert & strTemp & "ay"
Exit Sub
End If
Loop
End If
If strTemp.ToUpper Like "*[!AEIOUY]*" Then
pigLatinWord = strTemp & "way"""
End If
End Sub
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rch1231 169 Posting Shark
Hello,
You would need to build a special test for consonant pairs (ch,gl,gh,fl sh,th,st,sp kn,sn,sl,pl,wh, and any others you can think of...) like you did for the vowels. You will need to put it before the single consonant process to eliminate them before you get to that part. Also you did not do anything for the numeric word and you will need to test for that.
karodhill 0 Newbie Poster
i fixed it. Thanks all for the help though
Private Sub btnConvert_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnConvert.Click
'declare variables
Dim strOriginalWord As String
Dim strPigLatin As String
'assign user input to variable
strOriginalWord = txtWordenter.Text.Trim
' make sure the user enters a word
If strOriginalWord = "" Then
MessageBox.Show("Please Enter a Word")
End If
If strOriginalWord <> Nothing Then
End If
'determine if the word starts with a vowel, consonant, or numeric
'display original word with vowel as piglatin word add "-way" to end of word
'consonants to end of word with 'ay" added to end of consonants
'if words are numeric add "-way" to end of numeric expression
If strOriginalWord.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper() Like "[AEIOU]" Then
strPigLatin = strOriginalWord & "-way"
lblConvertedword.Text = strPigLatin
ElseIf strOriginalWord.Substring(0, 1) Like "[0-9]" Then
strPigLatin = strOriginalWord & "-way"
lblConvertedword.Text = strPigLatin
Else
strPigLatin = Mid(strOriginalWord, 3) & Mid(strOriginalWord, 1, 2) & "-ay"
lblConvertedword.Text = strPigLatin
End If
txtWordenter.Focus()
End Sub
Private Sub ConvertPigLatin(ByVal wordConvert As String, ByRef pigLatinWord As String)
If wordConvert.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper Like "[AEIOU]" Then
pigLatinWord = wordConvert & "way"
End If
Dim strTemp As String = ""
If wordConvert.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper Like "[!AEIOU]" Then
Do While wordConvert <> ""
strTemp = strTemp + wordConvert(0)
wordConvert = wordConvert.Remove(0, 1)
If wordConvert.ToUpper Like "[AEIOUY]*" Then
pigLatinWord = wordConvert & strTemp & "ay"
Exit Sub
End If
Loop
End If
If strTemp.ToUpper Like "*[!AEIOUY]*" Then
pigLatinWord = strTemp & "way"""
End If
End Sub
' make sure the guest wants to leave the app
Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(sender As Object, e As FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
Dim dlgButton As DialogResult
dlgButton = MessageBox.Show("Do You want To exit ? ", "Cable Direct", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo)
If dlgButton = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.No Then
e.Cancel = True
End If
End Sub
Private Sub btnExit_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnExit.Click
Me.Close()
End Sub
'Clears labels when words change
Private Sub ClearLabels(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles txtWordenter.TextChanged
lblConvertedword.Text = String.Empty
End Sub
Private Sub btnClear_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnClear.Click
' clears the words enetered
txtWordenter.Text = String.Empty
End Sub
Private Sub WordConvert_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
End Sub
End Class
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