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[eminem_ayeesha]

i need help with this i dont really have a clue on what to really do but heres the question

Write an application that, depending on the command-line input:
reads several lines of text from the keyboard and encodes the text according to the following principle:
- a becomes 1
- b becomes 2
- c becomes 3
- ...
- after each letter 0 is inserted
- words are to be separated by '-'
For example the string ``java programming'' should become:
``1001022010-16018070180101301309014070''

Display the result of the encoding of the screen and write the result to file.

reads in a file, supplied by the user, containing an encoding. The program should decode the file and display the result of this process on the screen.

Nested if-statements will not be highly appreciated.question is finding a suitable algorithm for the encoding/decoding

[DJDaveMark]

Hey there,

Here's something i knocked up quickly to change "java" into "1001022010"

    public static void main(String [] args) 
    {
        String str = new String("java");
        
        for(int i=0; i<str.length(); i++)
        {
            char character = str.charAt(i);
            int num = character;
            num = num - 96;
            System.out.print(num + "0");
        }
    }

Is that all you need to get you started, or have you got some code already?

Cheers, DJDaveMark