Thread: What am I doing worng?

Hello ThunderChunkier. Welcome to the Java Programming Forums.

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What is wrong with your code? Please give us as description of your problem.

Looking at your code, I can see one problem located within your for loop. What are you attempting to do here?

Originally Posted by ThunderChunkier

It is giving me an incompatible types error - "found int but expected String."

That is because ss[] is a String array. The clue is in the error..

x is an integer and so is 1. You canno't make Bill an integer

The 'for loop' is a good loop to use. I suggest making sure it doesn't try to loop more times than the size of your array.

What are you trying to do with ss[x] = x + 1; ?

But X is already being incremented each pass of the for loop.
The first time you enter the loop, ss[x] is going to reference the first index, and the second pass, ss[x] is going to reference the next position of the array and so forth.

Stop trying to insert an Integer value into String Array
Only repeat the loop for the length of the Array and not more.
Print one element at a time from the Array.

You're just overthinking the whole concept, here is the solution; it compiled and ran fine:

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class SortStringArray
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        String ss[] = {"Bill", "Mary", "Lee", "Agnes", "Alfred", "Thomas", "Alvin", "Bernard", "Erza", "Herman"};
        Arrays.sort(ss);
 
        for(int x = 0; x<10; x++)
        {
            System.out.print(ss[x]);
        }
    }
}

I took away your increment because it was already being done in the loop's parameters. I just changed your 'test' in the increment to < as the array goes up to 9 (0-9 = 10 people)