java problem

ok problem and not sure why

the code:

String firstWord =
originalWordSet.substring(0,originalWordSet.indexof(0,ch));

problem:

can not resolve symbol
...originalWordSet.substring(...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^


please help no clue what this means

 

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It looks as if it's not recognizing originalWordSet as a string. Maybe you should post your code for that.

 

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ok the code for originalWordSet is:

String originalWordSet =
JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter 4 words seperated by a *");

 

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Make sure that you've declared originalWordSet before firstWord. Otherwise your code looks fine to me.

~piirx

 

it is but I am still geting the error

 

It might not even be that thats the problem. If you are missing a brace of some kind it could begiving you that error, is that your only error? maybe you should post your entire code.

 

my code

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

class WORDS{
public static void main(String args[])
{
String originalWordSetstr =
JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter four(4) words seperated by a *");
String originalWordSet = originalWordSetstr;
String firstWord = originalWordSet.substring(0,originalWordSet.indexOf(0,'*'));
String secondWord = originalWordSet.substring((originalWordSet.indexOf(0,'*')+1), originalWordSet.indexOf((originalWordSet.indexOf(0,'*')),'*'));
String thirdWord = originalWordSet.substring((originalWordSet.indexOf((originalWordSet.indexOf(0,'*')),'*')+1),originalWordSet.indexOf(originalWordSet.indexOf(originalWordSet.indexOf(0,'*'),'*'),'*'));
String forthWord = originalWordSet.substring((originalWordSet.indexOf(originalWordSet.indexOf(originalWordSet.indexOf(0,'*'),'*'),'*')+1),(originalWordSet.length()+1));
String newWordSet = forthWord + "*" + thirdWord + "*" + secondWord + "*" + firstWord;
String message = "your string: " + originalWordSet + "/n The new word order: "+newWordSet;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,message);
System.exit(0);
}
}
ok I found and fixed my error but it still not doing what it suposed to

 

You have the indexOf parameters reversed.
It's easiest to do this problem using a StringBuffer an a array of words. For example, you could write something that looks like this

Code:

...
// s is what we are parsing
while(i < s.length()) {
    int c; 
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    
    // continue adding to our token until we hit the delim '*' or
    // at we are at the end of the string
    while((c = s.charAt(i)) != '*' && i < s.length()) {
        sb.append(c);
        i++;
    }
    word[i] = sb.toString();
    i++;                                // skip over the the '*'
}