How can you use a variable in a method that is declared in main?

[drhinri]

I'm trying to write a program in which i have several methods. I inputted an array of strings in main and want to use this array in both main and the methods. How do I go about doing this? I need to declare the variable in the method, but I need the original array to be the value of this.
Thanks

[Junky]

The OO approach would be to create a class and declare your data as one or more instance variables. That way all methods will have access to them.

If this is beyond your scope then you will have to pass your data as parameters.

[drhinri]

thank you so much.

[kbro3]

He means that you pass in your data as parameters to the methods:

public int addTwo(int a, int b)
{
return a + b;

}

So in this example, you are passing two integers into your method (these are parameters). You could just as easily pass an array into your method.

Cheers,

Kirill