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Thread: Need help passing values through classes

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    Default Need help passing values through classes

    This is a pretty basic concept, but I'm struggling with it. I've got three classes that I'm using for an assignment, basically, I'm passing over a string of a number into a class that parses the number and stores each individual piece of the number in different nodes as a linked list. My problem lies in sending over the number in the first place. I don't want to make my method static, so i have a bit of a problem.


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    Default Re: Need help passing values through classes

    In the class that parses the string you can pass the string through a constructor, or a method. I'll show you how to do it with a constructor.

    //this is the class that does the parsing
    public class parsingClass { 
       String stringToParse;
     
       public  parsingClass(String stringToParse){
          this.stringToParse = stringToParse; //Sets the string in this class to the one passed as an argument
       }
     
       //TODO: method that parses the string
    }
    and
    //this will be the main class, or the one that passes the string to be parsed.
    public class assignmentMain {
       public static void main(String[] args){
          parsingClass parsingClass = new parsingClass(String of numbers here);
          //Rest of code
       }
    }

    This should be a gentle nudge in the right way.
    Last edited by Brt93yoda; October 5th, 2010 at 10:05 PM.

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    Default Re: Need help passing values through classes

    Thanks, I appreciate the response. I ultimately got past it last night, and it was a weird mistake to make. It's just been a while since I programmed, school just started back up.

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