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lab13b
Pig La(b)tin

• In lecture, we saw a method computing whether a list contained a certain element (or, whether two Strings had the same first letters).
  We can modify those methods to so that as soon as a match (or mismatch) is found, they stop the loop immediately.
  We'll need similarly technology for the step below.
• Write a method that takes one word, and converts it to pig latin.

• (Optional) Converting a list-of-words to pig latin is now easy -- have a for-each loop which calls that function repeatedly.

  But who has a list of words? We want to take in an entire sentence (one big String which includes spaces)! No problem -- it turns out, the String method split(" ")¹ gives us back something which is usable with for-each. Try (in the Code Pad, using shift-enter for multiple lines):

  for (String w : "It is a nice day, eh?".split(" ")) { System.out.println("w is " + w); }

  (The return type of split is not actually List<String>, but is actually String[] (“array of String”). We'll talk about arrays next week; arrays are like lists except that they can never shrink or grow. And of course, they use a whole new type of syntax.)

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