Thread: SOS

Hey friends,

I am stuck in this the program below.
I am supposed to get the result of the item whether it's in array of not. Kindly guide me through this...where I have done the mistake.
I am new in Java.

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class LinearSearching
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int data[] = {11,23,54,34,44,76};
int n = data.length;
int item = 50;
int loc = 0;
data[n+1] = item;

do
{
loc = loc + 1;
}
while(data[loc]!=item);

if(loc == n+1)
{
loc = 0;
System.out.println("Unsuccessful");
}
else
System.out.println("Successful");
}
}

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Hello, I am having trouble understanding your goal. But first, basic arrays are of fixed size. You cannot put an additional item in it like you tried to do in line 9 with n+1, you will run into ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when you execute the program.

So, just to fully comment the program:

class LinearSearching
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		int data[] = {11,23,54,34,44,76};//array of information you are searching through
		int n = data.length;//length of the array
		int item = 50;//item you're searching for
		int loc = 0;//current location within the array
		data[n+1] = item;//adding the item to the end of the array, not allowed in Java, arrays are of fixed size.  Using an index out of the range of the original size will crash the program.
		do// not really a good choice, java arrays start at index 0,  this code will increment to 1 first before checking the condition.
		{	
			loc = loc + 1;//increment at least once, 
		}
		while(data[loc]!=item);
 
		if(loc == n+1) // the end has been reached, thus the item is not in the original list
		{
			loc = 0; //?, not really required.
			System.out.println("Unsuccessful");// failure notification
		}
		else
		System.out.println("Successful");  //assuming that the item has been found since the position variable is not at the end of the array.
	}
}

Does this help? You'll need to find a way to make the array with the variable that you're looking for it you want to do it this way.

WOW...thanks dear for helping me out....actaully the prob existed with your this code but commenting each statement helped me figuring me out the prob....!!!