Arrays

[whateverme]

Hello there. I writing a program which uses arrays and for loops. In this program, it will ask the user to input their names and whether they are under 16. The data they entered will be stored in two arrays, adults and children.
In the end it will print an invoice listing names with the amount and also the total.

For examples;
what is the name of person 1? Beck
Is Beck under 16 ? No
what is the name of person 2? Jon
Is Jon under 16 ? Yes
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What I have written so far

class exercise
{
    public static void main (String[] param)
    {
        
        waterRafting();
        System.exit(0);
        
    } // END main

    public static void waterRafting()
    {
    	
       // Declare variables
       String numberofparty = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How many in the party (maximum 6) ?");
       int total = Integer.parseInt(numberofparty);
       int[] people = new int[total];
  
    
		while((people <=6) && (people >=0))
		{ 	
			for(int i = 1; i<=people.length; i++)
       		{
       		 	String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What is the name of person " + i + " ?");
     		 	String age = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Is " + name + " under 16 ?");
     		 	//String[] adults;
     		 	//String[] children;
     		 
     		 if(age.equalsIgnoreCase("No"))
     		 { 	
     			//Not under 16 add to adult array
     				adultsArray(names);
      		 }
     		 else 
     		 {
     		 	//Under 16 add to children array
     		 		childrenArray(names);
       		 } 
     		 
        }
        return people;
       
     public static void adultsArray(String[] names)
     {
        boolean flag = true;
        
        for (int i = 0; i<names.length && true)
        {
        	 
        }
        
     	
     }

However I'm not sure how to put the names of adults and children to two different arrays.

[pbrockway2]

Does that compile? If not, and you can't understand the compiler's message copy and post it along with some indication of which line of your code it is referring to.

[whateverme]

Hi,
I tried to change this part a bit

public static void waterRafting()
    {
    	
       // Declare variables
       String numberofparty = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How many in the party (maximum 6) ?");
       int total = Integer.parseInt(numberofparty);
       int[] people = new int[total];
  
    
		while((people <=6) && (people >=0))
		{ 	
			for(int i = 1; i<=people.length; i++)
       		{
       		 	String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What is the name of person " + i + " ?");
     		 	String age = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Is " + name + " under 16 ?");
     		 	String[] adults;
     		 	String[] children;
     		 
     		 if(age.equalsIgnoreCase("No"))
     		 { 	
     			//Not under 16 add to adult array
     				adults = adultsArray(names);
      		 }
     		 else 
     		 {
     		 	//Under 16 add to children array
     		 		children = childrenArray(names);
       		 } 
     		 
        }
        return people;
       
     public static adultsArray(String[] names)
     {
        boolean flag = true;
        int i = 0;
        
        while(true)
        {
        	for (i<names.length;i++)
        	{
        	 	names[i];
       		}
        }
        
        
     	
     }

this is the error

exercise6.java:60: illegal start of expression
     public static void adultsArray(String[] names)
     ^
exercise6.java:60: illegal start of expression
     public static void adultsArray(String[] names)
            ^
exercise6.java:60: ';' expected
     public static void adultsArray(String[] names)
                  ^
exercise6.java:60: '.class' expected
     public static void adultsArray(String[] names)
                                             ^
exercise6.java:60: ';' expected
     public static void adultsArray(String[] names)
                                                  ^
exercise6.java:67: > expected
                for (i<names.length)
                                   ^
exercise6.java:67: not a statement
                for (i<names.length)
                      ^
exercise6.java:68: illegal start of expression
                {
                ^
exercise6.java:68: ';' expected
                {
                 ^
exercise6.java:69: illegal start of expression
                        names[i];
                             ^
exercise6.java:69: ')' expected
                        names[i];
                              ^
exercise6.java:69: illegal start of expression
                        names[i];
                               ^

[whateverme]

I tried to modify my program again.

    public static void waterRafting()
    {
    	   // Declare variables
       String numberofparty = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How many in the party (maximum 6) ?");
       int total = Integer.parseInt(numberofparty);
       int[] people = new int[total];
 	   String[] adults;
 	   String[] children;
    
		while((people <=6) && (people >=0))
		{ 	
			for(int i = 1; i<=people.length; i++)
       		{
       		 	String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What is the name of person " + i + " ?");
     		 	String age = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Is " + name + " under 16 ?");
     		 	
     		 
     		 if(age.equalsIgnoreCase("No"))
     		 { 	
     			//Not under 16 add to adult array
     				adults = printAdultsArray(names); 
					
      		 }
     		 else 
     		 {
     		 	//Under 16 add to children array
     		 		children = printChildrenArray(names);
       		 } 
     		 
        }
        return people;
    
     }    
       
     
     public static printAdultsArray(String[] names)
     {	
     		List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(names.length);  
			for (String s : names) {  
    		list.add(s);
     } return printAdultsArray;

I got this error

exercise6.java:64: illegal start of expression
     public static printAdultsArray(String[] names)
     ^
exercise6.java:64: illegal start of expression
     public static printAdultsArray(String[] names)
            ^
exercise6.java:64: ';' expected
     public static printAdultsArray(String[] names)
                                   ^
exercise6.java:64: ';' expected
     public static printAdultsArray(String[] names)
                                                  ^
exercise6.java:100: reached end of file while parsing
} 
 ^
5 errors

[Fubarable]

Please fix your indentation carefully and if you do, you'll quickly see that you have a method nested within another method, which is not allowed. This is one of the reasons for proper indentation.