Thread: Methods in a class

Hey!

I got this class with some static methods in it from an assignment that i am doing atm.
One method should act as the following : Method void replaceAll(int[] arr, int old, int nw), replacing all occurrences of old with nw in arr.

However i feel lost.. does anyone know what they mean? And if so then how should i approach this?


Here is the code:

import java.util.Scanner;
//Forbidden to use array classes. 
public class engV {
	static final int[] arr = { 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 };
	// Made this a static and a final so that it won't change and so that everything
	// can access it!
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
 
		Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		System.out.println(sum(arr)); // For sum method. It takes all the values of arr and adds them together.
		System.out.println();
		System.out.println();
		System.out.println(tostring(arr)); // Prints out the numbers from the array.
		System.out.println();
		System.out.println();
 
		// Adds numbers to each element.
		System.out.println("Write a number that you would like to add to each element in the array :");
		int input = in.nextInt();
		System.out.print("The new numbers are : ");
		addN(arr, input); // Takes return from addN method.
 
		System.out.println();
		System.out.println();
		System.out.println();
		System.out.print("Reverse order of array : ");
		reverse(arr); // Writes the reverse order of the array.
		System.out.println("\n");
		hasN(arr, 4); // Tests to see if the number within the parentheses, in this case it checks if
						// 4 is within the array.
		in.close();
 
	}
 
	public static int sum(int[] arr) {
 
		int n = 0;
		for (int i : arr) {
			n += i;
		}
		return n;
	}
 
	public static String tostring(int[] arr) {
		String strk = " ";
		int i = 0;
		String st = null;
 
		for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
			st = Integer.toString(arr[i]);
			System.out.print(st + strk);
			if (i >= arr.length) {
				break;
			}
		}
 
		return strk;
	}
 
	public static int[] addN(int[] arr, int n) {
 
		String strK = " ";
		int results[] = null;
		int k = 0;
		for (k = 0; k < arr.length; k++) {
			System.out.print(arr[k] + n + strK);
		}
		return results;
	}
 
	public static int[] reverse(int[] arr) {
 
		int counter = 0;
		String str = " ";
		for (counter = arr.length - 1; counter >= 0; counter--) {
			System.out.print(arr[counter] + str);
 
		}
		return arr;
 
	}
 
	public static boolean hasN(int[] arr, int n) {
 
		boolean found = false;
		for (int i = 0; !found && (i < arr.length); i++) {
 
			found = (arr[i] == n);
		}
 
		if (found == true) {
			System.out.println("Yes, " + n + " does exist in the array!");
 
		} else {
			System.out.println("No, " + n + " does not exist in the array!");
 
		}
		return found;
 
	}
 
	public static void replaceAll(int[] arr, int old, int nw) {
 
		//Here i get lost... 
 
	}
}

Originally Posted by Norm

I would assume they mean
given array that contains 1,2,3,4,2
replacing all 2 with 99 would change the arrays contents to 1,99,3,4,99

Have you tested the other methods? Do they give the correct results?
It's usually better to work on ONE method at a time. Design it, code it, compile and execute for testing.
Continue those steps until the results are as desired BEFORE working on the next method.

Originally Posted by jim829

That would be my take as well.

Regards,
Jim

Yes everything works so far. Well that does sound about right.
Thanks guys!

Originally Posted by Norm

Have you looked at the value returned by hasN? Change the call to hasN to save the value that is returned and then print that with a message showing what the expected value is and what the returned value was.

Doesn't it work for you?