Display string in GUI after popping an integer from array.

[skyward]

I have tried everything I can think of to display a string in GUI while removing a number each time I pop an integer from the array the string represents. At the moment each pop() replaces the top integer with "0". I have been unable to find a way to avoid using a place holder such as "0" or find a way to cut them afterward. Is there a way to pop integers from an array and then display the array as a string as it is incrementally popped?

Here is what would be displayed in GUI when I have hit pop for the last 2 elements;

[12, 23, 43, 65, 38, 60, 26, 51, 0, 0]

I need it to be;

[12, 23, 43, 65, 38, 60, 26, 51] when I pop the last 2 elements.

   public int pop() {	  
	  stack[top] = 0;
	  stackList = Arrays.toString(stack);   
	  field2.setText(stackList);  
	  top--;
	  return top;
  }//End pop method

[jim829]

When you say display a string in a GUI does that mean you are displaying it in a graphics context, text area, or to the console? What is preventing you from writing a routine to display the active stack? Finally, why are you replacing the popped value with a zero? It is just a memory location that no longer contains a value of interest. So just ignore it.

Regards,
Jim

[skyward]

I am trying to display the array in a text field. Frankly, I was replacing the popped element with a zero because it was a marker for me to see that the element had been removed. I would have preferred simply doing something like stack[top] = ""; but I am unable to do that. I couldn't figure out how to get the string representation of the array with the elements removed as I call the pop() method.

[pbrockway2]

Why are you using an array (with its fixed length) when you are using the thing like a stack?

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If it's because this is some sort of homework where you are supposed to implement a stack using an array, then consider writing a method whose job it is is to construct the string. The method would examine the array elements from the top to the end of the array using a StringBuilder or similar to build up the string it would return. It really is a bit ugly to abuse zero in this way: what if your stack were to be used in situations where the stack should contain zero?