Thread: Help Me with my Program CompareTo!!!!

Can you show what your program prints out?

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if you don't know what the compareToIgnoreCase method is returning, use printlns to show you.
For example:
System.out.println("third.compareToIgnoreCase(firs t)=" + third.compareToIgnoreCase(first) +
" third=" + third + ", first=" + first);

What programming techniques do you know how to use now? Do you know about arrays?
For this problem you would normally use arrays.

Otherwise if you are supposed to use if() then
can you describe the logic you are using to find the first, and then second and third?

I cant use array because i'm a beginner
and when it print i don't get the in order
for example if i wrote : cat cloud catch

i get cat catch catch

and i'm using eclipse program

and the the anwser should be by if statement and compareToIgnoreCase method

Before you write any code, you need to design the logic for what the code is supposed to do, step by step.
Have you done that? What are the steps you need to take to find the first string.

i get cat catch catch

Your code only changes the variable: two. The other two variables are never changed.

like i used the if statement for example for the first word:

if(first.compareToIgnoreCase(second) < 0 && first.compareToIgnoreCase(third) > 0)  
 
		{
			two=first; 
		}
		if(first.compareToIgnoreCase(second) > 0 && first.compareToIgnoreCase(second) < 0)  
		{
		two=first;  
		}

PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME ON HOW TO FIX MY PROBLEM
I DON'T WANT TO FAIL

Before you write any code, you need to design the logic for what the code is supposed to do, step by step.
Have you done that? What are the steps you need to take to find the first string the lowest one.

i POSTED WHAT I DID IN MY FIRST POST UP
!
THAT WHAT I DID WITH MY PROGRAM ONLY

+ WE NEVER DESIGN SOMETHING BEFORE WE WRITE A CODE
WE ARE JUST BEGINNERS!
FIRST CLASS OF JAVA!

Time to learn how to program. First you think about the problem, then you design a solution and then you write code.
For example here is a design in pseudo code to find and save the smaller of two ints: one and two
Compare the two ints
if one is smaller than two
smaller = one
else
smaller = two

Now expand that to be for three items

so i do if first = one
else
first=two
else=three??

Sorry that makes no sense.
Why are you testing for equality? To sort you need to know if one value is less than another.

My algorithm started with:
if one is smaller than two

Your names are backwards for me. I think that you read in strings: one, two and three and then sort them so that first has the first in order, second has the second and third has the last(third).

Try writing the logic for finding if one is the lowest of the three strings: one, two, three.

Originally Posted by WantHelp

+ WE NEVER DESIGN SOMETHING BEFORE WE WRITE A CODE
WE ARE JUST BEGINNERS!
FIRST CLASS OF JAVA!

You don't have to shout. Where's your code?