Homework 1: Pig Latin Translator

To truly deepen your appreciation for great poetry, your first task is to write a program that will translate a document into Pig Latin. Pig Latin is a language derived from English. To create a word in Pig Latin, move all consonants form th beginning of a word to the end of the word and append ay.

For example:

English Pig Latin

hello ello-hay

strange ange-stray

and and-ay

English	Pig Latin
hello	ello-hay
strange	ange-stray
and	and-ay

For convenience, we will not translate one letter words. But you may if you wish.

For the purpose of this program, vowels are the set {a, e, i, o, u, y}. Consonants are all other letters that are not vowels, and include ' and -.

Your program should prompt for a file to open, then translate that file to Pig Latin, preserving punctuation, spacing and capatolization.

Punctuation only occurs as the last letter in a string. You should not translate any word with punctuation (other than ' and - ) with non alphabet characters in any place other than the last letter, and then only if it is punctuation. For this program punctuation is the set {,, ., !, ?, :, ;} So, for example, "Forward, need not be translated (it begins with a "), but Storm'd becomes Orm'd-stay

If the input to your program is

Plunging in the battery smoke,
Right through the line they broke;
Cossak and Russian
Reeled from the sabre-stroke
  Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not--
  Not the six hundred

your program should print

Unging-play in-ay e-thay attery-bay oke-smay,
Ight-ray ough-thray e-thay ine-lay ey-thay oke-bray;
Ossack-cay and-ay Ussian-ray
Eeled-ray om-fray e-thay abre-stroke-say
  Attered-shay and-ay undered-say.
En-thay ey-thay ode-ray ack-bay, ut-bay ot--nay
  Ot-nay e-thay ix-say undred-hay

Your program should use good programming style including liberal use of functions. (In my program I had 8 functions). You should use self documenting code as well as frequent comments.

You must use indentation to mark blocks, and should have a consistent style for naming variables, constants, and functions. You should not have magic numbers in your program (use constants) other than 0 and 1.

You probably should use the function library that includes isalpha (man isalpha) as well as the functions tolower (man tolower) and toupper.

I also used the substr and length string functions, as well as the fact that x[n] returns the n+1 character if x is a string when n<x.length()

When you have finished with this code, email the .C (or .cpp) file to dbennett@edinboro.edu as an attachment. Make the subject of the message 131 homework 1.