Joseph Clifton

I'll work on the looup table in a bit.

As for the exceptions thing, I just want to program to quit when the user clicks "cancel", I don't want a message explaining the exception. That's the reason why I did the catch statement.

Hey guys, pretty cool forum you guys seem to have here, I'll probably be sticking around.

Anyways, I'm finishing up a year-long course in Java at my high school and I've learned almost nothing. What I have learned, I've had to teach myself. Anyways, here's a very simple program I just wrote that translates text into "1337-speak" (yes I think this is very stupid but one of my friends said I couldn't do it so I did it). My style isn't very normal and ya'll probably won't like that, but please take a look and give me pointers as I'm looking to learn as much as I can about Java.

import javax.swing.*; public class LEET { public static void main(String[] args) { try { String originalText = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the text you wish to convert."); String lowerCase = originalText.toLowerCase(); char[] theLetters = lowerCase.toCharArray(); String leetEquivalent = ""; for (int counter = 0; counter < theLetters.length; counter ++) { char current = theLetters[counter]; if (current == 'a') leetEquivalent += "4"; else if (current == 'e') leetEquivalent += "3"; else if (current == 'f') leetEquivalent += "pH"; else if (current == 'i') leetEquivalent += "!"; else if (current == 'l') leetEquivalent += "1"; else if (current == 'o') leetEquivalent += "0"; else if (current == 'r') leetEquivalent += "2"; else if (current == 's') leetEquivalent += "5"; else if (current == 't') leetEquivalent += "7"; else leetEquivalent += current; } JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, leetEquivalent); }catch (Exception e) {System.exit(0);} } }

[ May 22, 2005: Message edited by: Joseph Clifton ]

edit: the formatting seemed to get further messed up when I copied and pasted it. Sorry not sure wha tthe best way to do this is.

[ May 22, 2005: Message edited by: Joseph Clifton ]
[ May 22, 2005: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]