for loop demo

[richard stockman]

Im trying to print 12 columns and 5 rows using a for loop (one inside the other). Have tried many different permutations but just cant get my head around it! Please help. This is where i have got to. There have been many other variations but without success!!

  
for (val = 65; val <= 124; val++) {// val is a char
            System.out.println(" ");
            for (x = 1; x <= 5; x++) {
                
                System.out.print(val+" ");
                
            }
 

        }

[richard stockman]

Sorry, that should be 5 rows and 12 Columns starting at unicode char 65 through to 124.

[Michael Dunn]

for (val = 65; val <= 124; val += 12) //val += 12
System.out.println(" ");
for (x = 0; x < 12; x++)//0-based
System.out.print((val+x)+" ");

[richard stockman]

Great, thats sorted out the rows and columns but now instead of getting unicode characters I get the actual values even though I declared va1 as a char at the start of my code.

    
public class ForDemo {
 
    public static void main(String [] args) {
 
        int total = 0;
        int sqr;
        int x;
        char val;
 
        for (x = 0; x <= 100; x++) {
            total = total + x;
 
        }
        System.out.println("The sum of the first 100 integers = " + total);
 
        for (x = 1; x <= 20; x++) {
            sqr = x * x;
            System.out.print(" " + sqr);
        }
        System.out.println();
 
        for (val= 65; val <= 124; val += 5) {
           
            System.out.println(" ");
        for (x = 0; x < 5; x++) {
            
            System.out.print((val + x) + " ");
        }
        }
    }
}

[Campbell Ritchie]

If you are using J5.0, have you tried the printf method rather than print?
You could printf("%c ", val) for each character on your rows.

Ar you looking for this sort of printout?

A B C D E F G H I J K L
M N O P Q R S T U V W X
Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d
e f g h i j k l m n o p
q r s t u v w x y z { |

CR

[richard stockman]

Yeah, thats what I'm looking for, the printf method works fine but when I was using the code from my first post the characters printed out using val even though they were not in the columns and rows that I wanted, now when I change the code to the working version I get numbers instead of characters. Is this something to do with the print((val+x)+" ")?

[Campbell Ritchie]

What makes you think the char primitive type is a character? It is a number, and when you add x which is another number to it, val behaves as a number.
Only when you keep chars away from other kinds of value will they behave as characters.


The %c operator forces the value back to a character.

CR
[ April 24, 2006: Message edited by: Campbell Ritchie ]

[Campbell Ritchie]

Before anybody tells me off for wrong terminology . . . .

Your adding an int to your char causes the char implicitly to cast to an int, so it shows its true colours as a number.

The %c behaves as if there were a hidden cast back to a char; try it with int values.
You can probably get print((val+x)+" ") to print a character with a (char) cast.



CR

[richard stockman]

Thankyou for your help.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Only too pleased to help.