Thread: Char to String - Gender method.

Hi, I am doing an assignment where I need to get the user to enter m or f in gender and return male.

My assignment criteria requires me to have gender as a char and sex as a char. I get error after error and can't do anything. Not a very good programmer lol.

here is my code:

 
public class Person
{
    // instance variables
    protected String name;
    protected char gender;
    protected Date dateOfBirth;
    protected String address;
    protected String natInsceNo;
 
    private static int counter;
 
    public static int count()
    {
        return counter;
    }
 
    /**
     * Constructor for objects of class Person
     */
    public Person(String nme, char sex, Date dob, String insceNumber)
    {
        // initialise instance variables
        name = nme;
        dateOfBirth = dob;
        gender = sex.charAt(0); 
        natInsceNo = insceNumber;
        counter = 0;
    }
 
    public Person(Person other)
    {
        counter++;
    }
 
    public void getGender(char sex)
    {
        if ("m".equalsIgnoreCase(gender))
           return "Male";
        else if ("f".equalsIgnorecCase(gender))
           return "Female";
        else
           return "Unknown Gender";
    }
 
    public void copy(Person other)
    {
        //creates another instance of Person
        name = other.name;
        gender = other.gender;
        dateOfBirth = other.dateOfBirth;
        natInsceNo = other.natInsceNo;
    }    
 
    public boolean equals(Person other)
    {
        //returns true if the name and national insurance number are the same as the values in other.
        return name.equals(other.name) && natInsceNo.equals(other.natInsceNo);
    }
}

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