calling methods

[Elon Zibitt]

ok, so i have a class that has 2 methods. method 1 parses an xml document and grabs a specific value. the second method formats the value. do i have to run both methods from a thrid method in order for the main to print out the formatted value? if so how would i do that?

[timothy zimmerman]

You could call both methods from within the main method.
public static void main(Sting[] args)
{
// this example is assuming the value is a String
// of course it may be whatever
String value = method1( xmldocument);
String foirmattedValue = method2( value );
// or you could do it this way but it is a little less obvious
// chaine the output of method1 into the call to method 2
String formattedValue = method2( method1(xmldocument) );
}

[Peter Tran]

timonthy's solution assumes that everything inside the class containing this main method is static. If they aren't and method1 and method2 are instance methods, then you'll need to allocate an instance of the class before you call those methods.

public class Foo 
{
  public Foo()
  {
  }
  /** 
   * Parses xml document and retrieves some value.
   */
  private String method1(String xmlDocument)
  {
  }
  /**
   * Format a given String object.
   */
  private String method2(String inString)
  {
  }
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    Foo f = new Foo();
    String val = f.method1("xml.inp");
    String formattedValue = f.method2(val);
  }
}

-Peter