Thread: Help with class program!!! STUCK! Program not doing what I Want!!!

I am having problems in getting my program to return an array that contains counters to my main method.

I have four methods: main, countBase, findMost, and computeAvg.

For findMost and computeAvg method I checked to see if my programs were counting the amount of elements in array correctly by just individual return the count variable. They were. But when I put the count variable into array and then tried returning the array or when I messed with the array in the other method and asked to place the position in a number so I return the position as a number value, it only displayed weird junk.

//in main
//for findMost, return int value of position; for computeAvg return array with avg amount of count of element in the array
 
int valueMost = findMost(arrayDNA1); //Sends the first array to the findMost method
System.out.println("The position returned: " + valueMost);
 
int[] valueAvg = findMost(arrayDNA1);
for( int s = 0; s < valueAvg.length; s++)
System.out.println(valueAvg);
 
//in findMost, after the count of element that needs to be counted is done
int[] valueCount = {countA, countT, countG, countC};
 
//I look for the position for the largest value which was done correctly
return largeIndex;
 
//in computeAvg, for each count
double avgA = (double)countA / arrayLength;
.
.
 
double[] avgSeq = {avgA, avgT, avgG, avgC};
 
return avgSeq;

Please help I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

If you want help with code, you'll have to break your problem down into an SSCCE and post that instead. If you post more than a few lines of code, most people will ignore you. They aren't doing this to be mean or out of laziness- there are hundreds of posts here, and we simply don't have time to get to all of them.

Break your problem down into smaller, specific steps.

Originally Posted by sketch_flygirl

Made it short.

That's a good start, but that's not an SSCCE. And you haven't actually told us what the problem is- what do you mean by "weird junk"? What did you expect to happen? What happened instead (be specific)?

But we're really only going to be guessing until we get our hands on an SSCCE.

That looks like you're trying to print out an array, or an Object without a useful toString() method. But again, without seeing an SSCCE, I'm only guessing.

Originally Posted by sketch_flygirl

What do I do now?

I asked for an SSCCE a few days ago. That seems like a good place to start. Narrowing your problem down to just a few lines is your best bet- and chances are, you'll figure out the problem yourself in the meantime. If you're going to be a programmer, get used to this process.