Lottery Application

[notnumber6]

Hello guys,

I have created a basic working java lottery application, it predicts 5 numbers and a bonus ball, all working and a great first Java project. However, it will repeat intergers, so i need to add a bit to the code so if a ball has already been picked it wont be picked again....

Here is the code so far:

import java.lang.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class LoteryApp extends Object
{
	public static void main(String[] argStrings) throws Exception
	{
		Random random = new Random();
		
		int[] lotteryNumbers = new int[5];
		
		int bonusBall = random.nextInt(49);

		for (int index = 0; index < lotteryNumbers.length; index = index + 1)
		{
			lotteryNumbers[index] = random.nextInt(49);
		}
		System.out.println("Your lucky numbers are:");
		for (int index = 0; index < lotteryNumbers.length; index = index + 1)
		{
			System.out.println(lotteryNumbers[index]);
		}
		System.out.println("Your Bonus Ball is:");
		System.out.println(bonusBall);

	}
}

You have a great forums here, thanks for helping.

Joel

[JavaBean]

Check the code below. isValidNumber(...) method will check if the random number is previously selected or not and will return true if it is not selected before. You can fill that method yoursef.

for (int index = 0; index < lotteryNumbers.length; index = index + 1)
{
    int tmp = random.nextInt(49);
    
    while (!isValidNumber(tmp)) {

         tmp = random.nextInt(49);
    }

    lotteryNumbers[index] = tmp;
}

private boolean isValidNumber(int[] lotteryNumbers, int currentIndex, int currentNumber) {

...

}

[notnumber6]

Hey JavaBean,

Really like the code, have changed the variable names so i hope you can still understand it but the method where ... is, what shall i put here?

import java.lang.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class LoteryApp extends Object
{
	public static void main(String[] argStrings) throws Exception
	{
		Random random = new Random();
		
		int[] lotteryNumbers = new int[5];
		
		int bonusBall = random.nextInt(49);

		for (int index = 0; index < lotteryNumbers.length; index = index + 1)
		{
			while (!hasNotBeingPicked(beforeCheck)) 
			{
				beforeCheck = random.nextInt(49);
			}
			lotteryNumbers[index] = beforeCheck;
		}
		private boolean hasNotBeingPicked(int[] lotteryNumbers, int currentIndex, int currentNumber) 
		{
		...
		}
		System.out.println("Your lucky numbers are:");
		
		for (int index = 0; index < lotteryNumbers.length; index = index + 1)
		{
			System.out.println(lotteryNumbers[index]);
		}
		
		System.out.println("Your Bonus Ball is:");
		
		System.out.println(bonusBall);

	}
}

[JavaBean]

private boolean hasNotBeingPicked(int[] lotteryNumbers, int currentIndex, int currentNumber) 
{

    boolean hasNotBeingPicked = true;

    for (int i=0; i<currentIndex; i++) {

        if (lotteryNumbers[i] == currentNumber) hasNotBeingPicked = false;
    }		

    return hasNotBeingPicked;
}