Split a player's name and fill with color

Hi,

I'm doing a nickname plugin (as said in my last question ) and I need to make a nickname that looks like this:
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How do I split up a player's name and put the colors in it?
I was thinking about using a for loop but I don't know what variables to use.
Thanks,
Freaky

 

@FreakyPear5 Something like this should work:

Code:Java

// The colors to change between
// This way should allow for more than 2 as well, in case you want that later
ChatColor colors = new ChatColor[] {ChatColor.AQUA, ChatColor.LIGHT_PURPLE};
 
// The name to color
String name = "Cotton Candy";
 
// I split it at the spaces so that the spaces aren't colored
// If i don't do this, it'll result in the "n" and "C" from "ton Can" being the same color
String[] words = name.split(" ");
 
// A StringBuilder is better performance wise than String concatenation
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 
// We use this to keep track of the current color to use
int colorIndex = 0;
 
// We loop the words in the name
for (String word : words) {
 
    // We loop the characters in the name
    for (char c : word.toCharArray()) {
 
        // We add the color to the StringBuilder, then the character
        sb.append(colors[colorIndex]).append(c);
 
        // We check if the colorIndex has reached the end of the colors array
        // If so, we make it start over
        if (colorIndex == colors.length - 1) color = 0;
        else color++;
    }
 
    // Here we add the space that we removed earlier back again
    sb.append(" ");
}
 
// Now we set the name to the colored version
name = sb.toString();

Although i haven't written anything in Java in some time now, so you could probably do it in some better way.

 

@KarimAKL Ok thanks but what would I put after that to give the item its name? The setDisplayName(sb) doesn't work because its a stringbuilder

EDIT: Sorry, ignore me!

@KarimAKL I had a try of it, that doesn't work. On the if statement it says color is not defined, as for the else++ line. Switching them to colors instead of color makes them say they can't change int to boolean. Help?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.