FancyWord Java Program

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// Name: Sammy Samkough
// Prog: FancyWord
// Spec: Read in one word at a time from the file and output the word as an hourglass as shown – words connect along diagonal
//		 and form complete words from one point to another – either forwards or backwards as shown.

import java.util.Arrays;

public class FancyWord
{
	private String[][] mat;

	public FancyWord()
	{
		mat = new String[0][0];
	}

   	public FancyWord(String s)
	{
		// size the matrix
		mat = new String[s.length()][s.length()];

		// use Arrays.fill() to fill in the matrix with spaces
		for (int r = 0; r < mat.length; r++)
		{
			Arrays.fill(mat[r], " ");
		}

		// use a for loop to load in the letters into the matrix
		for(int r = 0; r < mat.length; r++)
		{
			for(int c = 0; c < mat.length; c++)
			{
				if(r == c)
				{
					mat[r][c] = s.substring(c, c + 1);
				}
				else if(r == 0 || r == s.length() - 1)
				{
					mat[r][c] = s.substring(c, c + 1);
				}
				else if((r + c) == s.length() - 1)
				{
					mat[r][c] = s.substring(c, c + 1);
				}
			}
		}
	}

	public String toString()
	{
		String output = "";

		// use nested for loops to build a String from the matrix
		for (int r = 0; r < mat.length; r++)
		{
			output += Arrays.toString(mat[r]) + "\n";
		}

		return output.replace(",", "").replace("[", "").replace("]", "") + "\n";
	}
}
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// Name: Sammy Samkough
// Prog: FancyWord
// Spec: Read in one word at a time from the file and output the word as an hourglass as shown – words connect along diagonal
//		 and form complete words from one point to another – either forwards or backwards as shown.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class FancyWordRunner
{
	public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
	{
		Scanner file = new Scanner(new File ("fancyword.dat"));
		String word;
		FancyWord fw;
		int size = file.nextInt();
		file.nextLine();

		for(int i = 0; i < size; i++)
		{
			word = file.nextLine();
			fw = new FancyWord(word);
			System.out.println(fw);
	   }
	}
}

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