Thread: Searching an array for a certain value reporting back index position

I have not experimented with binary searches and things like that so my code is using a simpler way. The value I'm searching for is 9 which is found at index position 4 but my program is reporting that the value is found at index position 9. There is something I'm doing wrong here:

public class SearchArrayForValue
{
	public static void main(String args[])
	{
		int numbers[] = {2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11};
		int value = 9;
		int i;
		int j;
 
		System.out.print("The values in the array are: ");
 
		for(i = 0; i < 6; i++)
			System.out.print(numbers[i] + " ");
 
		for(j = 0; j < 6; j++)
 
			if(numbers[j] == value)
				break;
 
		System.out.println("\nValue of " + value + " found at index position " + numbers[j]);	
	}
}

Originally Posted by Norm

numbers[j] is the value in the array at index j


Note: The code should use {}s to enclose the statements inside of loops and if statements.

I experimented and discovered I only need to use the loop control variable in this case j to output the index position.