Printing strings with spaces

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Sarah - 14 May 2004 23:13 GMT

I am currently trying to convert a string inputted by the user, into
all lower case characters. I have discovered that my method will work
until it comes across a space in the string, at which point it stops
all together.

How do I print a string which contains spaces?

How do I convert the string all to lower case if it contains spaces?

Any help I can get will be much appreciated.

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Roderick Olliver - 14 May 2004 23:19 GMT

> I am currently trying to convert a string inputted by the user, into
> all lower case characters. I have discovered that my method will work
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>
> Any help I can get will be much appreciated.

System.out.println( "SpongeBob Square PANTS ".toLowerCase() );

spongebob square pants
$

Is that what you mean?

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Roedy Green - 15 May 2004 01:50 GMT

>I am currently trying to convert a string inputted by the user, into
>all lower case characters. I have discovered that my method will work
>until it comes across a space in the string, at which point it stops
>all together.

None of the methods I know of fail on spaces. Show us your code.

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Mikael Laine - 16 May 2004 15:58 GMT

If you are taking the string as command-line arguments it considers the
next word after the space another argument. So if you have something like:
public static void main(String args[]){
    System.out.println(args[0].toLowerCase());
}
you need to change it to

public static void main(String args[]){
    String str="";
    for(int i=0;i<args.length;i++){
        str+=args[i]+" ";
    }
    System.out.println(str.toLowerCase());
}

But if you are not doing this, then I don't know what's wrong :)
Send in the code Sarah...

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