How to group?

[Jay Orsaw]

Kind of a vague question, but didn't know how to ask it. Basically I have a this set of code, I posted the first 2 of 6, and I wanted to know how I would be able to reduce this into 1?

basically the code is EXACTLY the same besides f1,f2,f3,....,f6.

if(f1 ==5)
			{
				f++;
				for(int po = 1; po <= n; po++)
				{
					int e = list.getEntry(po);
					if(e == 1 && f1!=0)
					{
						list.remove(po);
						s.push(e);
						n--;
						po--;
						f1--;
					}
				}
				System.out.println();
				System.out.println("You are holding 5 " +s.peek()+ "'s");
				}
			
					else if(f2 ==5)
						{
							f++;
							for(int po = 1; po <= n; po++)
							{
								int e = list.getEntry(po);
								if(e == 2 && f2!=0)
								{
									list.remove(po);
									s.push(e);
									n--;
									po--;
									f2--;
								}
							}
							System.out.println();
							System.out.println("You are holding 5 " +s.peek()+ "'s");
						}
					

I figured I might be able to do something like f(n) or something like that, but I don't know.

[Jesper de Jong]

Instead of having six variables f1, f2, f3, ..., f6 you could create an array.

Have a look at: The Java Tutorials - Arrays.

For example:

// Create an array with 6 ints
int[] f = new int[6];

Access the six elements of the array as f[0], f[1], f[2], ..., f[5]. Ofcourse you can use a variable to index into the array:

for (int index = 0; index < f.length; ++i) {
    System.out.println("Value: " + f[index]);
}