Thread: I need help on this one :(

What have you tried?

Post a list of the steps the program must take to solve the problem.
For example this looks like a step:

The program needs to ask two questions
to find out the colour of hair
and the colour of eyes

Also post the code that you have written that tries to implement those steps.

That's the code for one of the steps.
Now what are the rest of the steps the program needs to take?
How would you do it manually?

When posting code be sure to wrap your code with code tags:
[code=java]
YOUR CODE HERE
[/code]
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There are several Strings that contain data about each of the people.
Looking at those String, given the colors, how would you manually find a match?

Look at the sentences. Are they all the same format? <>s are used for meta data
Andrew has fair hair and blue eyes.
<name> has <typehair> hair and <eyecolor> eyes.

If so, then the String class's split() method would be useful to separate the parts into a String array which will make searching easier.

I'm finished for tonight, back tomorrow.

ok thanks

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[ code= java]
import javax.swing.JOptionPane ;

public class example2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String guess;
double haircolour;
double eyecolour;

guess = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter the eye colour");
eyecolour = Double.parseDouble(guess);
guess = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter the hair colour");
haircolour = Double.parseDouble(guess);
int Andrew=3;
int Suky = 8;
int Jasmine = 7;
int Parminder = 9;
int fair = 1;
int blue = 2;
int black =3;
int brown = 4;
int hazel= 5;


if (Andrew == fair + blue){
eyecolour = fair;
haircolour = blue;
System.out.println(" The person is " +Andrew);
}
else if (Suky == brown + brown) {
eyecolour = brown;
haircolour = brown;
System.out.println(" The person is " +Suky);
}
else if (Jasmine == black + brown){
eyecolour = brown;
haircolour = black;
System.out.println(" The person is " +Jasmine);
}
else if (Parminder == brown + hazel) {
eyecolour = hazel;
haircolour = brown;
System.out.println(" The person is " +Parminder);
}
}
}
[/code]

still not working lol sorry I am new.

The code defines a number of variables but does not give them any values.

How will the user's guess of hair and eye colours be used to select an individual?

I don't know how to use int values for this program. All the data is in Strings.

How will the program get the data that associates the colors with the peoples names? The first posting shows 4 Strings. Will those 4 Strings be in an array in the program? Or how will their data be available to the program?

Before writing any more code, you need to work on the design for the program. Look at the questions in post#15.
How will the program save the attributes for all of the people?
How will the user's input be used to search though those attributes?

Yes, read post#15 and answer the questions asked there. This is post#19

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class program2 {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
 
 
 
 String Hair = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, " Enter hair colour Brown,Black or Fair: ");
 while (!(Hair.equalsIgnoreCase("brown") ^ Hair.equalsIgnoreCase("fair") ^ Hair.equalsIgnoreCase("black"))){
 Hair = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,  "Plese try again: Enter brown, fair or black hair colour: ");
}
 
 
 String Eyes = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter eye colour hazel, blue or brown: ");
 while (!(Eyes.equalsIgnoreCase("brown")^ Eyes.equalsIgnoreCase("blue") ^ Eyes.equalsIgnoreCase("hazel"))){
 Eyes = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please try again: Enter eyes colour hazel, blue or brown: ");
 }
 
 if(("fair".equalsIgnoreCase(Hair)) && ("blue".equalsIgnoreCase(Eyes)))
 {
 System.out.print("Andrew");
 }
 
 if(("brown".equalsIgnoreCase(Hair)) && ("brown".equalsIgnoreCase(Eyes)))
 {
 System.out.print("Suky");
 }
 
 if(("black".equalsIgnoreCase(Hair)) && ("brown".equalsIgnoreCase(Eyes)))
 {
 System.out.print("Jasmine");
 }
 
 if(("brown".equalsIgnoreCase(Hair)) && ("hazel".equalsIgnoreCase(Eyes)))
 {
 System.out.print("Parminder");
 }
 }
 }

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Please help

I suggest that you work out the design for the program before writing any code.
I asked some questions about the design in post#15 and in post#17.

What answers do you have for those questions?