Given a string, I have to replace all vowels with their respective position in the array. However, my code returns some strange symbols instead of numbers. Where's the problem?
String s = "this is my string";
char p = 1;
char[] formatted = s.toCharArray();
for(int i = 0; i < formatted.length; i++) {
if(formatted[i] == 'a' ||formatted[i] == 'e' ||formatted[i] == 'i'
||formatted[i] == 'o' ||formatted[i] == 'u') {
formatted[i] = p;
}
p++;
}
s = String.valueOf(formatted);
System.out.println(s);
P.S: Numbers are bigger than 10
this is my s t r i n g
012345678910 11 12 13 14
The position of i
in string
is 14
but 14
is not a character; it's a numeric string. It means that you need to deal with strings instead of characters. Split s
using ""
as the delimiter, process the resulting array and finally join the array back into a string using ""
as the delimiter.
class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s = "this is my string";
String[] formatted = s.split("");
for (int i = 0; i < formatted.length; i++) {
if (formatted[i].matches("(?i)[aeiou]")) {
formatted[i] = String.valueOf(i);
}
}
s = String.join("", formatted);
System.out.println(s);
}
}
Output:
th2s 5s my str14ng
The regex, (?i)[aeiou]
specifies case-insensitive match for one of the vowels where (?i)
specifies the case-insensitiveness. Test it here.