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    Default Array problem

    I realize this is an old post but my question is exactly the same. I read through this post and "Just think of mathematics" is not enough help for me.
    All I want to do is figure out how much each employee made, tabulate the count and then display the count. I'm not sure what's going on.
    All this does is cycle through the sales array and figures out the employees pay. Then counts to total[i][0]. Except it's not doing that.
    public class SalesCommissions {
    	public static void main(String[] args){
    		double[] sales = {5000, 4500, 2000, 5600, 3450, 6500, 0, 0, 3456, 9435};
    		double[][] total = {{0, 200}, {0, 300}, {0, 400}, {0, 500}, {0, 600}, {0, 700}, {0, 800}, {0, 900}, {0, 1000}};
    		double temp;		
     
    		for(int i = 0; i < sales.length-1; i++){
    			temp = 200 + (sales[i]*0.9);			
    			if(temp >= 1000){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 1000 && temp >= 900){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 900 && temp >= 800){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 800 && temp >= 700){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 700 && temp >= 600){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 600 && temp >= 500){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 500 && temp >= 400){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 400 && temp >= 300){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 300 && temp >= 200){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}
    		}		
     
    		for(int i = 0; i < total.length; i++){
    			if(i < 8)
    				System.out.printf("$" + total[i][1] + "-" + (total[i][1]+99) + " %6.0f\n", total[i][0]);
    			if(i == 8)
    				System.out.printf("$" + total[i][1] + "+    " + " %6.0f\n", total[i][0]);
    		}
    	}
    }


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    Default Re: Array counting problem

    it's not doing that.
    Please explain what the problem is.
    Show the program's output and add some comments that explains what is wrong
    and show what the output should be.

    Moved to own thread.
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    Default Re: Array counting problem2

    The code compiles with no errors. It's not tabulating correctly.
    All I want to do is figure out how much each employee made, tabulate the count and then display the count. I'm not sure what's going on.
    All this does is cycle through the sales array and figures out the employees pay. Then counts to total[i][0]. <---its not doing this

    --- Update ---

    nvm, i found it. if you can find the mistake, have a good laugh

    --- Update ---

    Nvm it doesn't work.

    --- Update ---

    This does not work.
    public class SalesCommissions {
    	public static void main(String args[]){
    		double[] sales = {5000, 4500, 2000, 5600, 3450, 6500, 0, 0, 3456, 9435};
    		double[][] total = {{0, 200}, {0, 300}, {0, 400}, {0, 500}, {0, 600}, {0, 700}, {0, 800}, {0, 900}, {0, 1000}};
    		double temp;		
     
    		for(int i = 0; i < sales.length - 1; i++){
    			temp = 200 + (sales[i]*0.9);			
    			if(temp >= 1000){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 1000 && temp >= 900){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 900 && temp >= 800){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 800 && temp >= 700){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 700 && temp >= 600){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 600 && temp >= 500){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 500 && temp >= 400){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 400 && temp >= 300){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 300 && temp >= 200){
    				total[i][0]++;
    			}
    		}		
     
    		for(int i = 0; i < total.length; i++){
    			if(i < 8)
    				System.out.printf("$" + total[i][1] + "-" + (total[i][1]+99) + " %6.0f\n", total[i][0]);
    			if(i == 8)
    				System.out.printf("$" + total[i][1] + "+    " + " %6.0f\n", total[i][0]);
    		}
    	}
    }

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    Default Re: Array problem

    nvm, i found it.
    Have you solved it?
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    Default Re: Array problem

    No, the program compiles if you would like to view the error. The current output is.
    $200.0-299.0 1
    $300.0-399.0 1
    $400.0-499.0 1
    $500.0-599.0 1
    $600.0-699.0 1
    $700.0-799.0 1
    $800.0-899.0 1
    $900.0-999.0 1
    $1000.0+ 1
    Which is clearly incorrect...as there are three people who made 0 in sales, so there base pay + comission should be 200 and total[0][0] should equal 3 or more.

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    Default Re: Array problem

    What are supposed to be the contents of the two dimensions in the total array?
    What is in the rows
    and what is in the column(s)?

    How should the code update the contents of the array?
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    Default Re: Array problem

    The sales array holds 9 different sales of 9 employees.

    The total array holds {counter, forAmount}
    array at[0][select 0 or 1] 0 for counter 1 for amount.

    so if i say total[0][0] It's pointing to the first row, first column. However, there is some logic error, something I don't understand about arrays apparently. For starts in the first for loop its array.length-1 as the limit. Well wouldnt it just be i < array.length? i starts at 0 array.length = 9 So I want it to run 8 to but since its -1 its only going up to 7....

    total[i][0]++; should be total[i][0] = total[i][0] + 1; right?

    I'm pretty sure I set up the if else statment correctly as well, but it's not adding properly...hmmm.

    --- Update ---

    I want the first column of each row in the total array to count how many times someone made a certain amount.

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    Default Re: Array problem

    The total array holds {counter, forAmount}
    How do you find the data for an employee? If the first dim is a counter and the second is the amount?

    Is this what you mean:
    there is a row for each employee (the first dimension)
    In a row, the first column is the counter and the second column is the amount.

    For example for the second employee (index = 1)
    total[1][0] is the count for employee 1
    total[1][1] is the amount for employee 1

    When incrementing the count for an employee, the first index needs to point to that employee's row.

    I don't understand where the employee's number comes from. The if tests are for the value of temp.
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    Default Re: Array problem

    Ok, I might have explained my problem very poorly. I have been working with java for 2 years, I don't usually change the values in an array. For this instance, I am....But it won't work....Arrays in java...do weird things that regular primitives won't.

    Employees are merely identified by how much they make(no primary key or anything like that) Just how much thye made, thats their identification.
    This is held in sales[] where 9 employee sales records are.

    Now, I need to go through each record and calculate the pay = basepay + comission. basepay = 200. So, you can sell 0 dollars and still make 200 basepay.

    Now, I have have a counter for each time someone makes within a certain range.
    This is total[i][0].
    Total[i][1] is merely holding the display for each counter.

    total[0][0] = counter for 300 < temp >= 200
    total[0][1] = 200

    Also. commission is calculated by sales[i]*0.09 which means 9 percent of the sales they make are part of their pay

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    OK. There is no need to keep track of what employee the data comes from. What is desired is a count of the different amounts earned.

    Is this what you are trying to do:
    For the two dims of the array:
    first dim(the rows) is for the counts. There is one row for each amount to be counted.
    second dim (the columns) is for each count: first column is the count, the second column is the range of the amount for that count

    How does the code find the row where the count is to be incremented? Should it be using the amount for the count from the second column to find what row to increment the count in?
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    Default Re: Array problem

    It doesn't need to find it. Both for loops start at position 0 and end at array.length. Temp and the if statements determine what counter variable needs to be added too. I don't see anything wrong with this code...

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    Default Re: Array problem

    It doesn't need to find it
    Is the "it" in that statement the "row" where the count is to be incremented?

    How will the code increment the correct count column where temp falls in the range defined by the amount column? The count and different amount values are on all the rows. How to "find" the correct row?

    I don't see anything wrong with this code...
    What is wrong with the output? Why are all the counts = 1?
    How does the value of the row index change as the code executes?
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    Norm does it have anything to do with the way it's declared?
    I mean if it was a three dimensional it would be double[][][] array = {{{0,5}, {0, 6}}, etc};
    You would access the variables in the same way. array[0][0][0] = 0 array[0][0][1] = 5 array[0][1][0] = 0 array[0][1][1] = 6

    I think it has something to do with the else if statements, which seem to be accurate.... I tried using primitive types as counters and it didn't work either.
    The compiler doesn't like the first for loop unless i do array.length - 1...i think it should be array.length because im saying i < length. So if were starting at 0 we go from 0 - 8 length = 9.
    so when i = 8 8 < 9 ..so this is the last loop....but it's making me -1 to the array.length....weird and it's adding 1 to all the 0 columns

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    Default Re: Array problem

    It has to do with "finding" the row where the counter is that should be incremented.

    Given a value of temp = 410, on what row should the counter be incremented? How can the code set the value for rowIdx in the following line of code?
    total[rowIdx][0]++;
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    Finally, I see the error of my logic, thanks for talking me through that one...
    each total[][]++ has to have the first and second bracket manually. why I put i in there..I don't know.

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    for(int i = 0; i < sales.length; i++){
    			temp = 200 + (sales[i]*0.09);			
    			if(temp >= 1000){
    				total[8][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 1000 && temp >= 900){
    				total[7][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 900 && temp >= 800){
    				total[6][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 800 && temp >= 700){
    				total[5][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 700 && temp >= 600){
    				total[4][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 600 && temp >= 500){
    				total[3][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 500 && temp >= 400){
    				total[2][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 400 && temp >= 300){
    				total[1][0]++;
    			}else if(temp < 300 && temp >= 200){
    				total[0][0]++;
    			}
    		}
    I also had to change .9 to 0.09....Wow....and when I fixed the i to hard coded, i < array.length worked....jeez

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    Default Re: Array problem

    Hardcoding the row index is one way
    another way is to search the amount columns starting at the top end and working down to the first row for the row that has the amount for the value in temp.
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