help returning array

[dendoc01]

I have a drivers license test program where in the main method the user inputs the answers then in a separate class there needs to be a method to see if the user passed a method to tell how many were wrong and right and a method put the numbers of the answers which were wrong into an array then the main method needs to print out the results of each of those methods. my issues is with the array of the problem numbers that were wrong . I believe I correctly created it but I cant get the main method to print it out.Thanks

public class DriverExam
   {
      static String[] correctAnswers={"b","d","a","a","c","a","b","a","c","d","b","c","d","a","d","c","c","b","d","a"};
      static String[] userAnswers=new String[20];
      
   
   //constructer
      public  DriverExam(String[] user)
      {
         userAnswers=user;
      }
   
   
   
   
   //method to see if you passed
      public static boolean passed()
      {
         boolean pass=false;
         int correctCount=0;
         int incorrectCount=0;
         for(int i=0;i<userAnswers.length;i++)
         {
            if(userAnswers[i].equals(correctAnswers[i]))
            {
               correctCount++;
            }
            else
            {
               incorrectCount++;
            }
         }
      
         if(correctCount>14)
         {pass=true;}
         return pass;
      
      }
      
      //method to find number correct
      public static int totalCorrect()
      {
         boolean pass=false;
         int correctCount=0;
         int incorrectCount=0;
         for(int i=0;i<userAnswers.length;i++)
         {
            if(userAnswers[i].equals(correctAnswers[i]))
            {
               correctCount++;
            }
            else
            {
               incorrectCount++;
            }
         }
      
         return correctCount;
      
      }
      
      //method to tell how many were not correct
      public static int totalIncorrect()
      {
         boolean pass=false;
         int correctCount=0;
         int incorrectCount=0;
         for(int i=0;i<userAnswers.length;i++)
         {
            if(userAnswers[i].equals(correctAnswers[i]))
            {
               correctCount++;
            }
            else
            {
               incorrectCount++;
            }
         }
      
         return incorrectCount;
      
      }
      
      public static int[] questionsMissed()
      {
      
         boolean pass=false;
         int correctCount=0;
         int incorrectCount=0;
         for(int i=0;i<userAnswers.length;i++)
         {
            if(userAnswers[i].equals(correctAnswers[i]))
            {
               correctCount++;
            }
            else
            {
               incorrectCount++;
            }
         }
      int[] questionWrong=new int[incorrectCount];
      
      for(int i=0;i<questionWrong.length;i++)
      {
      if(!userAnswers[i].equals(correctAnswers[i]))
      {i=questionWrong[i];
      }
      }
      return questionWrong;
      }
      }

import java.util.Scanner;
public class DriverExamDemo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String[] userAnswers=new String[20];
String answer;

System.out.println("please enter the testee's answers as the correspond with the question number");

for(int i=0;i<userAnswers.length;i++)
{
Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Q."+(i+1));
answer=input.next();
userAnswers[i]=answer;
}
// constructor to send the users answers
DriverExam exam1 = new DriverExam(userAnswers);

//Check passed boolean to see if the user passed or failed
if(DriverExam.passed())
System.out.println("you passed your driving exam");
else
System.out.println("you failed your driving exam");

//check how many answers were correct and incorrect
System.out.println("you answered "+DriverExam.totalCorrect()+" questions correctly");
System.out.println("you answered "+DriverExam.totalIncorrect()+" questions incorrectly");

int[] questionsWrong=DriverExam.questionsMissed();
for (int i=0;i<questionsWrong.length;i++)
{
System.out.println("you got question " +questionsWrong[i]+"incorrect");



}
}
}

[tamilarasi]

Try this:

i think you except to print this

you got question 0incorrect
you got question 1incorrect
you got question 2incorrect
you got question 3incorrect

So you made one mistake on questionsMissed mehod on DriverExam class that's like you declare the array inside the loop. each time it's created.

So You try this...

 static int[] questionWrong ;// declare globally 
public static int[] questionsMissed()
      {
       
         boolean pass=false;
         int correctCount=0;
         int incorrectCount=0;
         for(int i=0;i<userAnswers.length;i++)
         {
            if(userAnswers[i].equals(correctAnswers[i]))
            {
               correctCount++;
            }
            else
            {
               ++incorrectCount;
            }
         }
         questionWrong=new int[incorrectCount]; // assign value here
     
       
    /* for(int i=0;i<questionWrong.length;i++)
      {
      if(!userAnswers[i].equals(correctAnswers[i]))
      {i=questionWrong[i];
      }
      }*/
      return questionWrong;
      }

[Ronin]

The code in #2 serves no purpose but to return an empty array.

The current code actually causes an infinate loop where i is not being incremented because of the code on line 106. After initialization the int array 'questionWrong' is populated with zeros. The code on line 106 assigns the value of 'qustionWrong[i]' to 'i', in this case 0. Because 'i' is reset to 0 during each iteration it creates the infinate loop.

There are more efficient ways to acheive the results you want, but based on the code...

You've defined an array, 'questionWrong', to be the length of the number of incorrect answers. As you loop through the answers you want to assign the question number of each incorrect answer to the array.
For this create another variable to hold the position of the next available element of 'questionWrong'. When looping through the answers assign the question number to the element and increase the value of the position variable by one.

Let me know if you require any further assistance.

Regards.