Thread: sortstringarray

Please help me. i am working on this project and i believe that i am going the wrong way on it. it says to create a String array call ss. It will contain the following Strings in the order shown.
{“Bill”, “Mary”, “Lee”, “Agnes”, “Alfred”, “Thomas”, “Alvin”, “Bernard”, “Ezra”,“Herman”} Using this method

public static void sort(int a[]) //Signature
Example:
int b[] = {14, 2, 109, . . . 23, 5, 199};
Arrays.sort(b);

to sort this array and then print the contents of the
sorted array (using a loop) from index 0 to the last. Call both your project and class,
SortStringArray. Confine all of your code to the main method.
The printout should look like the following:
Agnes
Alfred
Alvin
Bernard
Bill
Ezra
Herman
Lee
Mary
Thomas
this is what i have so far :

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class sortstringarray
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    for(int a = 0; a <= 9; a++)
    Int 0 = "Bill";
    Int 1 = "Mary";
    Int 2 = "Lee";
    Int 3 = "Agnes";
    Int 4 = "Alfred";
    Int 5 = "Thomas";
    Int 6 = "Alvin";
    Int 7 = "Bernard";
    Int 8 = "Ezra";
    Int 9 = "Herman";
    String ss[] = {a};
    Arrays.sort(ss);
    System.out.print(ss);
  }
}

please send me some feedback on this

Originally Posted by ZaneDarklace

this is what i have so far :

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class sortstringarray
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    for(int a = 0; a <= 9; a++)
    Int 0 = "Bill";
    Int 1 = "Mary";
    Int 2 = "Lee";
    Int 3 = "Agnes";
    Int 4 = "Alfred";
    Int 5 = "Thomas";
    Int 6 = "Alvin";
    Int 7 = "Bernard";
    Int 8 = "Ezra";
    Int 9 = "Herman";
    String ss[] = {a};
    Arrays.sort(ss);
    System.out.print(ss);
  }
}

please send me some feedback on this

And the feedback is: this code is completely wrong and meaningless. It has so many syntax errors that it's not even compilable. You have to start with Java in another (hope better) way .....

Your code looks absolutely wrong. But just so I don't discourage you, i'll let you have this heads up:
1. You only need to import the java.util package;
2. You don't need a loop;
3. Names like Bill, Mary, etc should be declared String;

Finally, I strongly suggest you study some tutorial in this course as you wouldn't get anyware with this. All the best!

Recommended reading if you have not:
String (Java Platform SE 7 )
Arrays (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)
Variables (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)