acceessing an array from another class

[Valarie Brandt]

Hi all I am having a little problem.
I have a class called Student in that class there is a variable:
public final static char[] GRADES = {'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'F'};
I have another class called GradePoint Inside of that class I have a method:
public boolean validateGrades(char tempGrade)throws Exception
{
boolean valid = false;
for(int i = 0; i < GRADES.length; ++i)
{
if (tempGrade == GRADES.Student[i])
{
valid = true;
break;
}
}
return valid;
}
The problem I am having is I need to accept user input and the validate the input...but I can't figure out how to get my method in the GradePoint class to use the array from the Student Class.
PS this is the format the instructor wants us to use.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Originally posted by Valarie Brandt:
I have a class called Student in that class there is a variable:

public final static char[] GRADES = {'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'F'}; 

I have another class called GradePoint Inside of that class I have a method:

    public boolean validateGrades(char tempGrade)throws Exception
    {
        boolean valid = false;
        for(int i = 0; i < GRADES.length; ++i)
        {
            if (tempGrade == GRADES.Student[i])
            {
                valid = true;
                break;
            }
       }
       return valid;
    }

Code tags are good. Since GRADES is "public final static", it seems that you could use Student.GRADES[0], Student,GRADES[1], etc
[ April 10, 2004: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]

[Hiep Nguyen]

i think you can use switch statement for more easy.