Thread: Need help with boolean method! =(

Ok so here's my code. It has to check if all the array word members of "this" and "wca" array are same.
If theyre the same i need true.. But if only one of them is wrong it has to give false.

I know this code is wrong, i use the wordEqual = true or false lines at wrong places. I can't seem to solve it

If one of the members is wrong, i think it will go to the next member and get the boolean as true again.
I thought maybe i could break the loop if its an "else", but im not sure if this is completely right. Help please?

private boolean wordsEqual (WordCountArray wca){
boolean wordsEqual = false;
for (int i = 0; i < wca.size(); i++) {
if (this.getWord(i).equals(wca.getWord(i))) {
if (this.getIndex(getWord(i)) == (wca.getIndex(getWord(i)))) {
wordsEqual = true;;

}
else {
break;
}
}
else {
break;
}
wordsEqual = true;
}
wordsEqual = false;
return wordsEqual;

So you want to return false if just one of them are not equal, right?

Hint: That was a hint.

yes, i still cant figure it out, im a beginner =/

The Index and Word values of two arrays have to be same.

Otherwise it has to be false,

is this code true ? or is there a cleaner version maybe ?

Ooooh right ... ok i changed the both "break"s to "return false;"

thats true right ? =)

I don't know, does it work? Does it do what you'd expect?

If you post your updated code, I can maybe give you some other pointers. Don't forget the code tags though.