Printing an array.

**LoganC** · November 14th, 2012, 08:44 PM

I am having trouble trying to call printArray in main. I want to output (array) in the method printArray.

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package arrayhistogram;
 
/**
 *
 * @author Logan
 */
public class ArrayHistogram {
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
    }
    public static int arrayHistogram (int low, int high) {
 
    low = 2;
    high = 78;  
    int random = (int)(Math.random()*100);
    return random;
}
    public static int[] randomIntArray (int n) {
 
        int[] a = new int[n];
        for (int i = 0; i<a.length; i++) {
            a[i] = arrayHistogram (-5, 15);  
        }
        return a;
        }
    public static void printArray (int[] a){
        for (int i = 0; i<a.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(a[i]);
            int numValues = 8;
            int[] array = randomIntArray (numValues);
            printArray (array);
        }
    }
 
    }

--- Update ---

In main i have tried to printArray (array); but it doesn't work, cannot find symbol ;s

**Sharmeen** · November 15th, 2012, 01:23 AM

MAIN is Empty!!

Try this way:

public static void main(String[] args) {
int numValues = 8;
int[] array = randomIntArray (numValues);
printArray (array);
}

What troubles you have in calling the method in the Main??

**vluong** · November 15th, 2012, 01:37 AM

Logan, I have tried running your program in my IDE. Here are some remarks:

REMARK 1: You need to invoke printArray(array); in main() -- I see that the main() method in the code you posted is empty. You will need to change your main() method to something like the following:

public static void main(String[] args) 
{
    	// initialize some array a[] here
        // invoke the method printArray()
    	printArray(a);
}

REMARK 2: It isn't quite clear to me what you are trying to achieve, but you have a recursive call in your method printArray(). If you are unfamiliar with the term "recursive," in this context, it refers to a method calling itself. You are calling printArray(array) inside of your method printArray() -- this will result in a stack overflow.

REMARK 3: Unless you provide more information, I cannot be sure of what you are trying to achieve, but from looking at it, here is my guess: you have a method int [] randomIntArray(int n), and you will use to method to generate some array. You will then use the array generated by randomIntArray() as an argument for printArray(). If my guess is correct, the following code should do the trick for you:

/****************/

Hope that helps. Good luck.

**jps** · November 15th, 2012, 05:31 AM

@vluong please read "The problem with spoonfeeding"

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