Searching In a String Array - Problem

I'm implementing a TelephoneBook program, that will have an array of peoples names and telephone numbers hard coded into the program. The user will then search for someone who is in the array and the program will output their name and telephone number.

My program is not finished at the moment, i'm just checking it as i go through. It wont complile and there is one error. Without this error, my program should just return the position of the string they have searched for. Was wondering if anyone could help me out? Here the code...

p.s The line of code it doesn't like is highlighted

Code:

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// A program that will search for a name entered by the user and output the correct telephone number
import java.util.*;

public class TelephoneBook
{
        public static void main (String [] args)
          {
                //create Scanner
                Scanner myKeyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

                String [] names = {"Andy", "Bert", "Carl", "Dave", "Eric", "Fred"};
                int [] numbers = {111111, 222222, 333333, 444444, 555555, 666666};

                //linear search - unsorted
                System.out.println(names);
                System.out.println(numbers);

                System.out.print("\nEnter name to be searched for: ");
                String searchValue = myKeyboard.nextLine();

                [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]String position = linearUnsorted(names, searchValue);[/COLOR]               
                System.out.println(searchValue + " found at location " + position);
        }

        public static void output(int[] arr)
        {
                for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++)
                {
                        System.out.print(arr[i] + "  ");
                }
                System.out.println();
        }

        public static int linearUnsorted(int[] arr, int item)
        {
                int position = 0;
                while (position < arr.length && arr[position] != item)
                  {       
                        position ++;
                  }
                if (position == arr.length)
                {
                        position  = -1;       
                }
                return position;       
            }
}

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You don't mention the error msg you're getting but it probably has to do with the following:

• you're trying to send a argument that's a String when the linearUnsorted method is expecting an int.

Code:

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[COLOR="Red"][B]String searchValue[/B][/COLOR] = myKeyboard.nextLine();
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String position = linearUnsorted(names, [B][COLOR="red"]searchValue[/COLOR][/B]);
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public static int linearUnsorted(int[] arr, [B][COLOR="red"]int item[/COLOR][/B])

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Luck,
CJSL

public static int linearUnsorted(String[] arr, String item)

With the method above now changed to expect a String, i still get the same error. Which is on the line below:

String position = linearUnsorted(names, searchValue);
.........................................^

it looks as if the method is returning an int and you're expecting it to be a String.

Dillman... you have stated that you haven't finished your program so I'll just suggest some things:

• In your program you are trying to print the two arrays (names & numbers) using the println method:

Code:

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//linear search - unsorted
        System.out.println(names);
        System.out.println(numbers);

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This will not print what you want. I suggest you use the output method that's listed. NOTE: the current output method will only print int arrays (won't work with the names array).

• You have to rethink/redo the linearUnsorted method. It's been coded to work with an int array and an int position. It can't receive a string as an argument. I'm not really sure what it should do. Again, you're going to have to rethink this method.

Luck,
CJSL