.Net Coding Challenge #1

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Everytime I enter a word with a hyphen it says it's already in pig latin.

By definition a word with a hyphen isn't a word anyway, it's a compound word, meaning it's 2 definitions. (Example: absent-minded). I know the rule is broken a lot and people can use words like "lifestyle" instead of "life-style," however both are acceptable, so they are really 2 words together, and not one word. The English language has changed a lot over time though, and we've made a lot of confusing exceptions.

Plus, there's not a real way that you can avoid that though. If you want to convert the word "Run-way" to PigLatin for example, "-way" is already a part of the code, and since "a" is the first vowel it would have to either write something like "un-way-ray" or give that error, since the conversion to english in that case is really to just remove "-way". I've taken a look at a whole bunch of different words with online Piglatin to English translators and it seems that a lot of them are different. I am able to remove that rule in the code if you guys think it's necessary, but I wasn't really sure that there was a true rule for the odd words like this. But i've tried looking up words with no vowels, words with one letter (which aren't really english words except for the letter "a"), etc.

Words that sound the same but with different meanings: (Example: Effect, and Affect get confused with each other a lot)

English is basically a mix of everything lol. It's actually quite the "unorganized" language, since so many rules are combined together, and is arguably one of the hardest languages to learn if it's not your first language, for that one reason.

I got rid of any errors for when you type in something like:

Code:

{space*any # of times}.... {letters}

(Anything with a space first will come out with a message as a critical error)

Update: I found another Error when you type in something like {letters}... {space* any # of times}
so I just recently added this to one of my if statements in the code:

Code:

ElseIf TextBox1.Text.EndsWith(" ") Then
            MsgBox("There was an error while trying to translate the input text. You may have a space at the end of your input text. Please remove the space and try again", MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "Error - PigLatin Translator v1.0")
            Exit Sub