Array increment

[Wrick Sharma]

Any ideas why this code is not compiling

public class Arrays {

public static void main(String[] args) {
int[] a1 = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
int[] a2;

a2 = a1;

for(int i = 0; i < a2.length; i++)
System.out.println (a2.length);
a2[i]++;

for(int i = 0; i < a1.length; i++)
System.out.println(
"a1[" + i + "] = " + a1[i]);
}
}

If i remove "System.out.println (a2.length); it compiles.
Thanks.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

You've neglected to put braces around the body of this "for" loop:

for(int i = 0; i < a2.length; i++)
System.out.println (a2.length);
a2[i]++;

So that the body is actually just the "println" statement, and at the third line, "i" is undefined. If you comment out the "println", then the assignment alone becomes the body of the loop.

[Chad Clites]

You are missing your braces. That section of code should be:

 for(int i = 0; i < a2.length; i++){
     System.out.println (a2.length);
     a2[i]++;
 }

[ November 16, 2005: Message edited by: C Clites ]

[Wrick Sharma]

Oops ... My bad ... thanks.