Thread: Please Help (StringBuffer, Instantiable Class)

Develop an application that accepts one word from the user as input. The application should then translate and output the word in a secret language according to the following rules: The first letter of the word is placed at the end and the letters ‘ay’ are added to the end.
The application should make use of instantiable classes.

myCODE(Instantiable class):

 public class PigLatin{
	 private String word;
	 private String newWord;
	 private StringBuffer strBuff;
 
	 public PigLatin(){
		 word = " ";
		 newWord = " ";
		 strBuff = new StringBuffer();
	 }
 
	 public void setWord(String word){
		 this.word = word;
	 }
 
	 public void compute(){
		 for(int i = 1; i < word.length(); i = i +1){
			 strBuff.append(word.charAt(i));	
		}
		 strBuff.append(word.charAt(0));
		 strBuff.append("ay");
		 newWord = strBuff.toString();
 
	 }
 
 
	 public String getNewWord(){
		 return newWord;
	 }
 }
 
 
[QUOTE]AppClass:[/QUOTE]
 
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 public class PigLatinApp{
	 public static void main(String args[]){
		 String word, newWord;
 
		 PigLatin myPigLatin = new PigLatin();
 
		 word = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Enter a word");
		 myPigLatin.setWord(word);
 
		 myPigLatin.compute();
 
		 newWord = myPigLatin.getNewWord();
		 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "That translates to "+newWord);
	 }
 }

There's no problem to this code as it functions properly.
For example, Hello becomes elloHay.


However, I have difficulties modifying this code so that it allows the user to translate a sentence made up of many words separated by spaces.
For example, Hello world becomes elloHay orldway.

I think I'll have to store newWord into an array and then loop through that array to print it back out. How do I store this newWord variable into an array??

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i need answers! :S

A sentence of multiple words separated by spaces can be stored into an array of String objects using:

String[] wordArray = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Enter a word or a sentence").split( " " );

i see i get that..

but i need to go through the loop first

public void compute(){
		 for(int i = 1; i < word.length(); i = i +1){
			 strBuff.append(word.charAt(i));	
		}
		 strBuff.append(word.charAt(0));
		 strBuff.append("ay");
		 newWord = strBuff.toString();
 
	 }

before I store it into the array so I have the sentence: "Hello world" into "elloHay orldWay"..