I have an array, that takes in 6 company names, and how much money and food they donated..

I dont know how to display them..


i tried: System.out.println("These are the companies and how much they donated" + siteName[6]"
but my code breaks down.

how about you post your actual code? that's obviously a syntax error, so i'm guessing you didn't copy it correctly. and what datatype is your array? do you have a Company class with properties for name, money, food? or do you have 3 different parallel arrays? or is it a single array with 18 elements and you keep track of it somehow?

and please explain what "my code breaks down" mean. compile error? runtime error? you're getting output you didn't expect?

if you're not using a custom class, then you're prolly using all strings or multiple arrays (string, double, double?). string concatenation should work fine. eg: "my message " + array[1]

if you're using a custom class, make sure you override toString() then do the above

This post was edited by carteblanche on Apr 28 2013 10:23pm

make your class look like this.



The @Override annotation might give you an error depending on the version of java you're using. You can just delete it if it does

This post was edited by labatymo on Apr 29 2013 07:01am

well..6 company names are indexed 0-5. So array[6] would give u an array out of bounds error?

That's definitely one error I see too from the one line he gave us.

The chapter is about call methods an single dimension arrays.

these are my global variables;

// GLOBAL VARIABLES
static double [] cashDonations = new double[6];
static double [] lbsFood = new double[6];
static String [] siteName = new String[6];
// GLOBAL CALCULATED VARIABLE
static String bestSiteFood = " ";
static double totalCash = 0;
static double totalFood = 0;
static double maxFood = 0;
static double maxCash = 0;



this is my call method (this is the info i want to display)

public static void getDonations() // CALL METHOD GET DONATIONS

{
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
final int NUMBEROFSITES = 6;
for (int i = 0; i < NUMBEROFSITES; i++)
{
System.out.println(" Site Name: ");
siteName[i] = input.nextLine();

System.out.println(" How much money has been donated by this site? ");
cashDonations[i] = input.nextDouble();

System.out.println("How much food has been donated by this site?");
lbsFood[i] = input.nextDouble();

input.nextLine();


this is my code i started to make to display

System.out.println("-----------------------------------");
System.out.println("\t Overall Donations");
System.out.println("-----------------------------------");



And I want it to look like this..


Holiday Donation Locations Report
---------------------------------

Site: Walgreens
Individual Cash Donations $198.43
Individual Food Donations 14.54 lbs

Site: Walmart
Individual Cash Donations $985.75
Individual Food Donations 243.90 lbs

as others said, you should rather use a class, if this is an assignment it is really silly... + using global variables is not recommended

This post was edited by m0hawk on Apr 29 2013 09:44am

yes, unfourtionatlly it is an assignment :/
i dont know how i am supposed to display it like that..

just use the code I posted ?

You should be using an object for Company as apposed to several arrays to store the data. I'm suprised your teacher didn't teach you about classes before giving you this assignment. Here's how it should look.


This post was edited by labatymo on Apr 29 2013 10:26am