problem trasversing a linkedlist

[rebs nomames]

Hi

I have a small problem in one method's return value.

  if (!input.startsWith("4")) {
            LinkedList<Song> songs = new LinkedList<Song>();


            for (StringTokenizer stringTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(input, "\n"); stringTokenizer.hasMoreTokens();) {
                String author = stringTokenizer.nextToken();
                if (!stringTokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
                    break;
                }
                String title = stringTokenizer.nextToken();
                songs.add(new Song(author, title));
            }
            return songs;
        } else {
            return null;
        } 
 

Although I manage to get the correct author and title when looking at

 songs.add(new Song(author, title));

author and title variable content the method only returns the reference to the linkedlist, just gibberish... If anyone can point out how to fix this it will be greatly appreciated.

thanks

[Christophe Verré]

the method only returns the reference to the linkedlist, just gibberish...

I'm not sure I understand what you really want to do, but if you want to iterate through the LinkedList, why don't you use a for loop ?

[David Newton]

What do you mean by the method returns "gibberish"?

[leroy tsruya]

i assume you try to do print to the console a Song object.
when printing to th console using System.out.print for example, you use the toString method of the class.
so you will have to override the toString method of your song class (which inherited from the Object class).
just add this method to your Song class.
as:

 
public String toString(){
return "Name: " + getAuthor() + "\n" +
"Title: " + getTitle() + "\n";
}
   

or whatever you choose.
i assumed you have getAuthor and getTitle methods to return the author name and title in the song class.
Hope it helped