Need some guidance on a translation program

[CarlMartin10]

I have a program in which a user enters a sentence in English into a text box, then the sentence is translated into French and German based on words in an array of structures that gets its values from a text file. I have almost all of the program written, but I am a bit confused on how to get VB to get the English words that are entered into the text box separately so they can be translated individually and the value returned. I need help with this last part. I need to use a Sub Procedure to get the English Words and to Translate them. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is what I have so far.

Public Class frmTranslate
    
    ' Create Structure with a member for each language
    Structure Translator
        Dim english As String
        Dim french As String
        Dim german As String
    End Structure

    ' Create array of structures
    Dim trans(15) As Translator

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        'Add words to array of structures trans().
        Dim temp As Translator
        Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = IO.File.OpenText("words.TXT")
        For i As Integer = 0 To 15
            trans(i).english = sr.ReadLine
            trans(i).french = sr.ReadLine
            trans(i).german = sr.ReadLine
        Next

        'Close the reader
        sr.Close()

        'Perform bubble sort by English word.
        For i As Integer = 1 To 15
            For j As Integer = 1 To 16 - i
                If Trans(j - 1).english > Trans(j).english Then
                    temp = Trans(j - 1)
                    Trans(j - 1) = Trans(j)
                    Trans(j) = temp
                End If
            Next
        Next
    End Sub

    Private Sub Label1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles lblFrench.Click

    End Sub

    Private Sub btnTranslate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnTranslate.Click

        'Translate English sentence to French and German.
        Dim english() As String

        'Hold results
        Dim sentence As Translator

        'Ensure the sentence ends with a period, get English words
        Dim line As String = tbxEnterSentence.Text.Trim.ToUpper
        If line.Substring(line.Length - 1) <> "." Then
            line &= "."
        End If
        english = GetWords(line)
        sentence = Translate(english)

        'Display the results, format sentence to have period at the end
        tbxFrench.Text = sentence.french.Trim & "."
        tbxGerman.Text = sentence.german.Trim & "."

    End Sub

    Sub GetWords(ByVal line As String)

    End Sub

    End Sub

    Sub Translate(ByVal english As String)




    End Sub

End Class

[me655321]

Try this out...

Function GetWords(ByVal line As String) As String()
        Return line.Replace(".", "").Split(" ")
    End Function

Removes the period too. Maybe you'll want to remove other punctuation too.

[CarlMartin10]

Try this out...

Function GetWords(ByVal line As String) As String()
        Return line.Replace(".", "").Split(" ")
    End Function

Removes the period too. Maybe you'll want to remove other punctuation too.

thanks. I actually figured this part out, I am mainly having trouble with the final part

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english = GetWords(line)
sentence = Translate(english)

'Display the results, format sentence to have period at the end
tbxFrench.Text = sentence.french.Trim & "."
tbxGerman.Text = sentence.german.Trim & "."

especially how to make the Translate(english) function actually translate all the words in the english sentence entered into french and german. I am not so good with arrays of structures, and Im really confused about this part.

[redbluffsandi]

How would the form look for a program that would translate phrases from english to french and german?

[redbluffsandi]

How would a form look that would perform the above translation program?
Tim

[jleonardo]

That is an awesome guideline on a translation program which would be very helpful for the programming. There are also various translation program from French to English in which words are based in an array of structures.