Beginner help with arrays

[r jones]

I'm trying to figure out how to use an array, I was hoping someone could decipher what i've been doing and perhaps point me int he right direction






public class java4 {


static String number[] = {
null, "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twleve", "thriteen", "fourteen", "fifteen",
"sixteen", "seventeen", "eightteen", "nineteen", "twenty", "twentyone", "twentytwo", "twentythree", "twentyfour", "twentyfive", "twentysix",
"twentyseven", "twentyeight", "twentynine", "thirty", "thrityone", "thirtytwo", "thritythree", "thirtyfour", "thirtyfive", "thirtysix", "thirtyseven",
"thirtyeight", "thirtynine", "fourty", "fourtyone", "fourtytwo", "foutrythree", "fourtyfour", "fourtyfive", "fourtysix", "fourtyseven",
"fourtyeight", "foutrynine", "fifty", "fiftyone", "fiftytwo", "fiftythree", "fiftryfour", "fiftyfive", "fiftysix", "fiftyseven", "fiftyeight", "fiftynine",
"sixty", "sixtyone", "sixtytwo", "sixtythree", "sixtyfour", "sixtyfive", "sixtysix", "sixtyseven", "sixtyeight", "sixtynine", "seventy", "seventyone", "seventytwo",
"seventythree", "seventyfour", "seventyfive", "seventysix", "seventyseven", "seventyeight", "seventynine", "eighty", "eightyone", "eightytwo", "eightythree",
"eightyfour", "eightyfive", "eightysix", "eightyseven", "eightyeight", "eightynine", "ninety", "ninetyone", "ninety", "ninetythree", "ninetyfour",
"ninetyfive", "ninetysix", "ninetyseven", "ninetyeight", "nintynine", "one hundred"


};

public static void main(String[] args ){
int m = Integer.parseInt( args[0]);

System.out.println (number [m] );

}
}


..lol and yea i did write all those numbers 1 at a time.. I know theres probably a better way to write that but hey, im still learning.

btw the objective is to enter in a number ie: "22" and have the program respond with "twentytwo".

[Paul Clapham]

One could find things to criticize about that code... but at a quick glance it looks like it should work. Assuming valid input and so on. So do you have a specific question about it?

[Greg Brannon]

Why did you use null instead of "zero"?

[Kristjan Toots]

Hello & Welcome to the Ranch!
You really should use some code tags the readability will improve a lot.

...your code goes here...

I would like to agree with Paul. Now, what would you like to know?

[Vigneswaran Marimuthu]

public class StringArgsDemo {

	static String number[] = { null, "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twleve", "thriteen", "fourteen", "fifteen", 
		"sixteen", "seventeen", "eightteen", "nineteen", "twenty", "twentyone", "twentytwo", "twentythree", "twentyfour", "twentyfive", "twentysix", 
		"twentyseven", "twentyeight", "twentynine", "thirty", "thrityone", "thirtytwo", "thritythree", "thirtyfour", "thirtyfive", "thirtysix", "thirtyseven", 
		"thirtyeight", "thirtynine", "fourty", "fourtyone", "fourtytwo", "foutrythree", "fourtyfour", "fourtyfive", "fourtysix", "fourtyseven", 
		"fourtyeight", "foutrynine", "fifty", "fiftyone", "fiftytwo", "fiftythree", "fiftryfour", "fiftyfive", "fiftysix", "fiftyseven", "fiftyeight", "fiftynine", 
		"sixty", "sixtyone", "sixtytwo", "sixtythree", "sixtyfour", "sixtyfive", "sixtysix", "sixtyseven", "sixtyeight", "sixtynine", "seventy", "seventyone", "seventytwo", 
		"seventythree", "seventyfour", "seventyfive", "seventysix", "seventyseven", "seventyeight", "seventynine", "eighty", "eightyone", "eightytwo", "eightythree", 
		"eightyfour", "eightyfive", "eightysix", "eightyseven", "eightyeight", "eightynine", "ninety", "ninetyone", "ninety", "ninetythree", "ninetyfour", 
		"ninetyfive", "ninetysix", "ninetyseven", "ninetyeight", "nintynine", "one hundred" }; 

		public static void main(String[] args ){ 
		int m = Integer.parseInt(""+22); 

		System.out.println (number [m] ); 

		} 
}

you should do like this.

[Vigneswaran Marimuthu]

args[0] is throwing ArrayIndexOutOfBounceException for me !!!

[Zandis Murāns]

that's because you have not specified any argument while running you'r program.

[Vigneswaran Marimuthu]

now i got it. while i executed the .jar file in cmd prompt i gave the command line argument and am getting the output !!!


Thanks Zandis.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

As you have been told, it is not a good idea to let nulls into your code. You should change that to "zero" or "nought" or similar.

[r jones]

Thanks alot guys for the help, it was args 0 that was throwing everything out of balance.
Also I replaced "null" with "Zero".

It sure does suck being off by something so little..

Btw im throwing in a scanner class for user input I think I should be able to do it but if I can't figure it out you'll be the first to know.

Thanks again for the advice!

[Campbell Ritchie]

You're welcome

It's not scanner but Scanner. You should find enough information on the java.util.Scanner documentation page to get input from the keyboard. Beware of closing the Scanner, however, because you will close System.in and can only reopen it by starting a new JVM And careful with nextLine(), which has a little pitfall.

[Paul Clapham]

r jones wrote: It sure does suck being off by something so little..

That's programming for you. Yesterday I had something which didn't work because I put "itemStatus" instead of "itemstatus" in my code.

[Campbell Ritchie]

That's why I said Scanner not scanner. Computers have an IQ of approximately this (hint: click on constant field values), so the tiniest spelling error will throw them.

[Jesper de Jong]

The great thing with computers is that they always do exactly what you tell them to do.

The problem with us is that we don't always tell the computer exactly what we mean to do...

[Paul Clapham]

And just now I fixed another bug where I had "profileStatus" instead of "profilestatus" in my code.

(In Javascript... so it just silently does nothing instead of telling my I have an undefined variable.)

[fred rosenberger]

r jones wrote: It sure does suck being off by something so little..

That's why you NEVER NEVER NEVER write more than 2-3 lines of code before compiling. I would even have compiled after only entering the first 3-4 elements in my array, and tested it with appropriate values, before entering all 101 elements.