06 Nov Markham Saturday 14:00 Java Homework 11.02
Problem Description
Text messaging using a cell phone is popular among teenagers. The messages can appear peculiar because short forms and symbols are used to abbreviate messages and hence reduce typing.
For example, “LOL” means “laughing out loud” and “:-)” is called an emoticon which looks like a happy face (on its side) and it indicates chuckling. This is all quite a mystery to some adults.
Write a program that will continually input a short form and output the translation for an adult using the following translation table:
Short Form Translation
Short Form | Translation |
CU |
see you |
:-) |
I’m happy |
:-( |
I’m unhappy |
;-) |
wink |
:-P |
stick out my tongue |
(˜.˜) |
sleepy |
TA |
totally awesome |
CCC |
Canadian Computing Competition |
CUZ |
because |
TY |
thank-you |
YW |
you’re welcome |
TTYL |
talk to you later |
Input Specifications
The user will be prompted to enter text to be translated one line at a time. When the short form “TTYL” is entered, the program ends. Users may enter text that is found in the translation table, or they may enter other words. All entered text will be symbols or upper case letters. There will be no spaces and no quotation marks.
Output Specifications
The program will output text immediately after each line of input. If the input is one of the phrases in the translation table, the output will be the translation; if the input does not appear in the table, the output will be the original word. The translation of the last short form entered “TTYL” should
be output.
Sample Session (user input is in italics) Enter phrase> CCC Canadian Computing Competition Enter phrase> :-) I’m happy Enter phrase> SQL SQL Enter phrase> TTYL talk to you later
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