Thread: Pls help out with this code...What is wrong with it?

The code looks straightforward except that it is not working the way i expected it to.


Your assistance will be gladly appreciated.

Thanks.
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package sumaverage;

public class SumAverage {

public static void main(String args[]) {
int sum = 0;
String args.length[] = new String[10];
int i;
float Average;
for(i= 0; i<=args.length; i++){
sum = sum+ args.length;
}
System.out.println("The sum is:" +sum);
Average = sum/args.length;
System.out.println("The Average is:" +Average);

}

}

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. . . it is not working the way i expected it to.

Please describe what you expected and how the code executes differently than you expected. An excellent way to accomplish that is to post a sample run so that we can see how to duplicate the bad behavior and then describe how the sample run would be different if the behavior was correct.

This code will not work:
1. args is already declared system variable for receiving string array from the system, therefore compiler will give an error
2. args.length - is not acceptable name for variable, as dot is used as operator, I assume either you wanted to create new independent variable or your code wanted to check what system receiving values are (both are incorrectly implemented, however)
Assume this:
package sumaverage;

public class SumAverage {

public static void main(String args[]) {
int sum = 0;
String arg[] = new String[10];
int i;
float Average;
for(i= 0; i<=arg.length; i++){
sum = sum+ arg.length;
}
System.out.println("The sum is:" +sum);
Average = sum/arg.length;
System.out.println("The Average is:" +Average);

}

}

Thanks alot guys
Pls skuch89, it ran well but it was still displaying this error:

"run:

**The sum is:110
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at sumaverage.SumAverage.main(SumAverage.java:16)**

Java Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)"

Again, we'd be glad to help you if we knew what your code was supposed to do. Code comments would be great, but if you're unable to bring yourself to comment your own code, provide a statement of the code's purpose, the assignment's instructions, *something* that tells us what the code is supposed to do.

Thanks alot GregBranno, the code was supposed to accept some numbers and add them up and find the average. Thanks

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