Java help

[Josha12]

Hi
I was just wondering if anyone could help me with abit of coding.. i now the basic and have a task which i have to hand into school tmrw and cant seem to get my head around it. Im not sure were ive gone wrong. the point of this program is to allow me to enter a number : say 5, then i have to enter 5 differnet numbers which will be stored into an array.. but i cant seem to get it rite..

If anybody could help me that would be great.. :)

Thanks

package Prices;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class prices {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String input;
        String message;
        DecimalFormat showPrice = new DecimalFormat("$,###.00");
        input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the amount of prices you are going to enter!?");
        int size = Integer.parseInt(input);
        double price[] = new double[size];
        for(int i = 0; i < size ; i++){
            input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the price!?" + (i+1));
            price[i] = Double.parseDouble(input);

        }
        for(int i = 0; i < size ; i++){
        }

        Arrays.sort(price);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Your price is \n" + showPrice.format(price[0]));

    }

}

[tyroceur]

What is the problem that you are getting?

[Josha12]

tyroceur the code has no problems with it, but when i run it in netbeans, nothing happens.. ive tryed reinstalling netbeans and i get the same problem.. im quite sure my coding right but im not exactly sure wats the problem..

[Norm]

nothing happens

I find that hard to believe. What are you doing to make something happen?
Is there a console that displays the call to the java program with your class file?

[tyroceur]

Yep.... your coding does seem fine to me and it should also have no problem running in NetBeans also.

[Josha12]

Yep i figured it out.. since im using a laptop and im the screen resolution is out of wack it wasnt showing me theoutput window.. But the code is still incorrect:

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package Prices;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;



public class prices {

public static void main(String[] args) {
String input;
String message;
DecimalFormat showPrice = new DecimalFormat("$,###.00");
input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the amount of prices you are going to enter!?");
int size = Integer.parseInt(input);
double price[] = new double[size];
for(int i = 0; i < size ; i++){
input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the price!?" + (i+1));
price[i] = Double.parseDouble(input);

}
for(int i = 0; i < size ; i++){
}

Arrays.sort(price);
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Your price is \n" + showPrice.format(price[0]));

}

}

[tyroceur]

But the code is still incorrect:

Code looks absolutely fine..... If you are having any problems then post them here

Regards

[Josha12]

This is the error i get

run:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: prices/prices (wrong name: Prices/prices)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader. java:632)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java :616)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Secure ClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader .java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader. java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:3 07)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 48)
Could not find the main class: prices.prices. Program will exit.
Exception in thread "main" Java Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)

[Norm]

the code is still incorrect:

Where? Why do you think so? Please explain.

NoClassDefFoundError: prices/prices (wrong name: Prices/prices)

Java is case sensitive

[tyroceur]

you are using the wrong package name in your code.....

write

package prices;

[j2me64]

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Your price is \n" + showPrice.format(price[0]));

because you sort your array the output prince[0] prints always the smallest price. i could run your code successfully. try it out:

package prices;

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class prices {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String input;
		String message;
		int sum = 0;
		DecimalFormat showPrice = new DecimalFormat("$,###.00");
		input = JOptionPane
				.showInputDialog("Enter the amount of prices you are going to enter!?");
		int size = Integer.parseInt(input);
		double price[] = new double[size];
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
			input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the prices!?" + (i + 1));
			price[i] = Double.parseDouble(input);

		}
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
			sum += price[i];
		}

		Arrays.sort(price);
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Your prices is \n"
				+ showPrice.format(price[0]));

	}

}

as you can see, i used the package name prices and the class name prices, even if by convention the classnames begins with a capital letter.

[Prajin]

No wrong with the code. As I can see, it's what you want program to do is not clear.
Arrays.sort(price); -> it sorts the array ascending order(smaller to bigger) &
you get smallest price as output, look at the last line -
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Your price is \n" + showPrice.format(price[0]))