am i doing this right.

[andnlou2678]

hi all hope everybody is well..

i have this scenario


Write a program to input an hour and the minutes of a time and output it correctly formatted. For example, hour = 3 and minutes = 7 should be output as 03:07

Your program should use ternary operators in the output statement to determine whether or not to output a 0 before the hour and before the minutes.

this is my code so far (i think i am doing it right)


import java.io.*;

public class FormatTime
{

public static void main(String[] args)
{

//this will fetch our input values
BufferedReader usrInput = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( System.in) );

System.out.println("Enter a number in seconds to format: ");
int secs = usrInput.readLine ();

int hours = secs / 3600,
remainder = secs % 3600,
minutes = remainder / 60,
seconds = remainder % 60;

string disHour = (hours < 10 ? "0" : "") + hours,
disMinu = (minutes < 10 ? "0" : "") + minutes ,
disSec = (seconds < 10 ? "0" : "") + seconds ;

System.out.println(disHour +":"+ disMinu+":"+disSec);
}

}


this is the error i am getting

H:\java practice>javac FormatTime.java
FormatTime.java:13: error: incompatible types
int secs = usrInput.readLine ();
^
required: int
found: String
FormatTime.java:20: error: cannot find symbol
string disHour = (hours < 10 ? "0" : "") + hours,
^
symbol: class string
location: class FormatTime
2 errors


can somebody help me pls

many thanks Andy...

[Iron Lion]

If you're getting compiler errors, that's a fairly sure sign that you're not doing it right.

int secs = usrInput.readLine ();

readLine() returns a String, not an int.

string disHour = (hours < 10 ? "0" : "") + hours,

Java is case-sensitive. string is not the same as String. Also, you probably meant to terminate the line with a semicolon, not a comma.

Please use code tags when posting.

[andnlou2678]

sorry how do i use code tags when posting

thks andy..

[andnlou2678]

sorry i don't understand where i am going wrong

many thanks Andy..

import java.io.*;

public class FormatTime
{

public static void main(String[] args)
{

//this will fetch our input values
BufferedReader usrInput = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( System.in));

System.out.println("Enter a number in seconds to format: ");
int = usrInput.readLine ();

int hours = secs / 3600;
remainder = secs % 3600;
minutes = remainder / 60;
seconds = remainder % 60;

int disHour = (hours < 10 ? "0" : "") + hours;
disMinu = (minutes < 10 ? "0" : "") + minutes;
disSec = (seconds < 10 ? "0" : "") + seconds ;

System.out.println(disHour +":"+ disMinu+":"+ disSec);
}

}

[Iron Lion]

Post your code like this:

[code]
System.out.println("Hello world");
[/code]

int = usrInput.readLine ();

This is invalid syntax. You're specifying the type (int), but not an identifier. Int is still the wrong type anyway, because readLine() returns a String.

If you want to get an int from the user, look up java.util.Scanner and its nextInt() method.