Spaces in an argument

I am making a report plugin like the one on OCTC but I run into a problem whenever I try to make the reason have spaces.

Code:java

package com.invictuspvp.PotatoReports;
 
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
 
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
public final class PotatoReports extends JavaPlugin {
    public final ArrayList<String> reports = new ArrayList<String>();
 
    public final List<String> getReports() {
        return this.reports;
    }
 
    public void onEnable() {
    }
 
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd,
            String commandLabel, String[] args) {
        if (!(sender instanceof Player)) {
            sender.sendMessage("You must be in-game to use this command.");
            return true;
        }
        Player p = (Player) sender;
        if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("report")) {
            if (args.length == 0) {
                p.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Too few arguments.\n"
                        + ChatColor.RED
                        + "Correct Usage: /report <player> <reason> [Forcefield, Flying, Spamming, etc.]");
            } else if (args.length == 1) {
                p.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Too few arguments.\n"
                        + ChatColor.RED
                        + "Correct Usage: /report <player> <reason> [Forcefield, Flying, Spamming, etc.]");
            } else if (args.length == 2) {
                Player target = Bukkit.getServer().getPlayer(args[0]);
                String reason = args[1];
                if (target != null) {
                    if (!getReports().contains(target.getName())) {
                        getReports().add(
                                ChatColor.WHITE + "[" + ChatColor.GOLD + "R"
                                        + ChatColor.WHITE + "] "
                                        + ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + p.getName()
                                        + ChatColor.YELLOW + " reports "
                                        + ChatColor.DARK_AQUA
                                        + target.getName() + ChatColor.GOLD
                                        + ": " + ChatColor.WHITE + reason);
                        p.sendMessage(ChatColor.GREEN + "Thank you."
                                + ChatColor.GOLD
                                + " The issue will be dealt with shortly.");
                        for (Player players : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()) {
                            String report = ChatColor.WHITE + "["
                                    + ChatColor.GOLD + "R" + ChatColor.WHITE
                                    + "] " + ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + p.getName()
                                    + ChatColor.YELLOW + " reports "
                                    + ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + target.getName()
                                    + ChatColor.GOLD + ": " + ChatColor.WHITE + reason;
                            if (players.hasPermission("reports.view")) {
                                players.sendMessage(report);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    p.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "No players match your query.");
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
 
    public void onDisable() {
    }
}
 

I might type /report PistonGaming Hacking - Forcefield but it will just return blank. Nothing happens in the chat. But if I do /report PistonGaming Hacking it works! I want to be able to have multi word reasons, not just one!

 

Camaflicks

Code:java

public static String joinStringFrom(String arr[], int start, String sep) {
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = start; i < arr.length; i++) {
        builder.append(arr[i]);
        if (i != arr.length - 1) {
            builder.append(sep);
        }
    }
    return builder.toString();
}[/i]

you would use it like this

Code:java

String reason = joinStringFrom(args, 1, " ");

 

The command is tokenized by spaces, for example, this command:

will return 4 arguments! ( ["first", "second", "-", "third"]).
So, if you want the "-" in your commands, you should ignore the third arg ( in the string array the one obtainable with args[2]) and take a command for right formatted only if it has an args array with length of 4.