Thread: Missing return statement???

Hello everyone,

Forgive me for any errors in posting this here or simply bad posting syntax,
this is my first time posting here and probably won't be my last.

public Person getPerson(String name){
        for(int i = 0;  i< this.db.size(); i++){
            Person temp = this.db.get(i);
            String tempName = temp.getName();
            if(tempName.equals(name)){
                return temp;
            }
            else{
                return null;
            }
        }
    }

The compiler BlueJ keeps telling me there is a missing return statement and I don't know why as there are two return statements in the two if branches.

Find the third possible branch

Originally Posted by jps

Find the third possible branch

Thanks for the reply turns out I just had to shift my:

"return null;"

a couple of curly brackets down

Just so you know, your for loop will only ever cycle through one time.

Originally Posted by Parranoia

Just so you know, your for loop will only ever cycle through one time.

Fixing the compile error (correctly) also corrected that issue as per post #3

Yeah the issue was my 'return null;' had top be outside of the for loop which is now fixed