Insertion Sort

[apiwowar]

So i havent done java in about two years, its been a while since ive seen arrays. THe assignment is to fix a program that was given to me. I found one error but in the insertion sort part i cant get it to run the while loop. I cant make any fundamental changes to the program, basically i just have to fix the error in the while loop to get it running.

any pointers or advice would be appreciated, just need a kick in the right direction.

below is the program

import java.io.*;    // for BufferedReader
import java.util.*;  // for StringTokenizer

public class Prog1Original { // A simple program with no classes

   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

      int number[] = new int[100];
      int ct, num, size, i, j, insel;
      BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader(
         new InputStreamReader(System.in) );

      System.out.print("Input integers: ");
      size = 0;  // The smallest index of an array is always 0
      String inputLine = stdin.readLine();    // All input must be on a single line
      StringTokenizer input = new StringTokenizer(inputLine);
      while (input.hasMoreTokens()) {  // extract the integers from the input line
         
         num = Integer.parseInt(input.nextToken());
         number[size] = num;
         size = size + 1;
      }
      System.out.println();
      System.out.print("The original numbers: ");
      for (ct = 0; ct < size; ct++) {
         System.out.print(number[ct]);
         System.out.print("  ");
      }
      System.out.println();

       // "Insertion Sort" the numbers
      for (i = 1; i < size; i++) { // Starting with the second array element
         insel = number[i];
         j = i;
         while ( (number[j] > insel) && (j >= 0) ) { // shift larger elements right
            number[j + 1] = number[j];
            j = j - 1;
         }
         number[j] = insel;  // insert the number to its proper place
      }
      System.out.print("The sorted numbers: ");  // Output the sorted array
      for (ct = 0; ct < size; ct ++) {
         System.out.print(number[ct]);
         System.out.print("  ");
      }
   System.out.println();
   }
}

[Junky]

So what's wrong with it? Do you get compiler or runtime errors? Then copy and paste the full and exact error message and indicate on which line it occurs. Does it not perform correctly? Then explain what it does and what it should do instead.

[pbrockway2]

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