Passing a Vector object to a function

[evapisces]

Hi:
I am working on a program that involves a string Vector object. I have to re-write the selection sort procedure using the vector object (instead of an array), and then re-write the binary search procedure also using the vector object. I already have the code written for an array for both procedures, but I'm just not sure how to pass the Vector object to my sort and search functions so that I can re-work the functions for the Vector. I've looked through multiple Java books I have, but none of them are helping, so I thought I'd post my problem here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need more info from me, just let me know and I'll post it.

Thanks in advance

[Fubarable]

Given the information you've provided, your guess is as good as ours. You may wish to provide more details, and in fact repost the question as if we can't read your mind or magically see your code.

[evapisces]

Sorry I'm not the best explainer. Here's the code I have so far:

import java.util.*;

public class VectorOperations
{
    static Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
	 
	 public static void main(String[] args)
	 {
	     Vector<String> stringList = new Vector<String>();
		  int ans;
		  String target;
		  int index;
		  
		  do
		  {
		      System.out.println("Enter a string to be added: ");
		      stringList.addElement(console.next());
				
				System.out.println("Would you like to enter another string?\n [ Enter (1) for YES and (2) for NO ]");
				ans = console.nextInt();
		  } while (ans == 1);
		  
//		  selectionSort(stringlist);
//		  System.out.println(stringList);	   

		  
		  System.out.println("Enter the item you would like to search for: ");
		  target = console.next();
		  
//		  index = binarySearch(stringList, target);
//      System.out.println("The string " + target + " was found at position: " + index);
		  
	 }
	 

	 
//	 public void selectionSort()
//  {


//  }

//	 public int binarySearch()
//  {


//  }

}

I commented out the two functions down at the bottom, and the lines commented out in MAIN are operations I can't do yet because I haven't written the sort and search functions yet.

So I just wanted to know if anyone knows a snytax for passing a Vector object to a function because I'm not familiar at all with Vectors, I've been using arrays for most of my programming life.

[Fubarable]

You declare a Vector parameter the same way that you pass any parameter: class name followed by a parameter variable:

public void myFoo(Vector<String> stringVector)
{
  //....
}

[evapisces]

Oh, okay that makes sense. I guess I wasn't thinking clearly because Vectors are completely new to me. Thanks for your help. :)