How to change my code?

This is the question I was trying to answer:
Courier service. You have a courier service where the different routes are fixed. Create an
application (for example using array) where you can include (a fixed size) price table for different
distances your company carries packages. First ask for the user to input daily prices for all the
different routes. Then ask the user to input a departing and a destination for one delivery. Finally
provide the user with the correct price for the route.

The code I've got is below and it is working, but I want it to be that the user can input the daily prices (as asked in the exercise). I tried it with replacing the myNumbers part by

{
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
int myNumbers[] = new int[5];


for (int i=0;i<myNumbers.length;i++) {
System.out.println("Give a number");
myNumbers[i]=sc.nextInt();
}
}

That doesn´t work unfortunately. What should I do? Could anyone please help me? Thank you in advance!


import java.util.*;
public class CourierService {
public static int getPrice (int location, int destination) {

int [] [] myNumbers = {{0,10,33,99,11}, {10,0,88,55,11}, {33,88,0,66,11},
{99,55,66,0,11}};

int price = myNumbers[location] [destination];
return(price);
}

public static void main(String[] args ) {
int location;
int destination;
int price;
Scanner skanneri = new Scanner(System.in);
// read in users location
System.out.println("Welcome to the price calculator");
System.out.println("What is your location?");
System.out.println("0. Center ");
System.out.println("1. Kaisaniemi ");
System.out.println("2. Kamppi");
System.out.println("3. Eira ");
System.out.println("4. Kallio ");
System.out.println(" ");
System.out.println("Write number 0 to 4 ");
location=skanneri.nextInt();
// read in users destination
System.out.println("Welcome to the price calculator");
System.out.println("What is your location?");
System.out.println("0. Center ");
System.out.println("1. Kaisaniemi ");
System.out.println("2. Kamppi");
System.out.println("3. Eira ");
System.out.println("4. Kallio ");
System.out.println(" ");
System.out.println("Write number 0 to 4 ");
destination=skanneri.nextInt();

//find out the price and display it
price=getPrice(location, destination); //send to the getPrice
System.out.println(" This delivery costs "+price+" euros");
}
}

Code :

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myNumbers[i]=sc.nextInt();

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You have declared myNumbers as a 2D array but are trying to use it like a 1D array.

Then I thought I could use this:

{

int [] [] myNumbers = {
{new int[5]}, {new int[5]}, {new int[5]}, {new int[5]}, {new int[5]}
};

Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
for (int i=0;i<myNumbers.length;i++) {
System.out.println("Give a number");
myNumbers[i]=sc.nextInt();
}
}

And it tells me incompatible types, why?

I just told you why. You have declared myNumbers as a 2D array.

Simple answer: you need two indices to access an element (array[x][y]).
Long answer: a 2D array is a 1D array of 1D arrays. So each element of the array is an array itself. So saying array[x] you are acessing an array not an int. Hence the incompatible types.

I really appreciate the help, but I still don't get it. I'm a very beginner in Java, sorry. I thought I have to change the int's after new in Array, but then it tells me: cannot find symbol - class array. Can you try to help me again?

"array" was my general variable name for an array in my example. You of course would use the name of your variable. Common sense!

Got it working now, but one more question. I want it to first ask for the prices and then for the location and destination. How can I get it working like that?
Here is my code:

import java.util.*;
public class CourierService {
public static int getPrice (int location, int destination) {

int[][] myNumbers = new int[5][5];
Scanner skanneri = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("A price table looks like the example below: ");
System.out.println(" Center Kaisaniemi Kamppi Eira Kallio ");
System.out.println("Center 10 20 30 40 50 ");
System.out.println("Kaisaniemi 20 10 40 30 30 ");
System.out.println("Kamppi 30 40 10 20 60 ");
System.out.println("Eira 40 30 20 10 50 ");
System.out.println("Kallio 50 30 60 50 10 ");
System.out.println("Now enter the daily prices for the different routes: ");
System.out.println("Start providing all the numbers for Center and then move on to Kaisaniemi and further: ");
for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
for (int j=0; j<5; j++)
myNumbers[i][j] = skanneri.nextInt();
int price = myNumbers[location][destination];
return(price);
}

public static void main(String[] args ) {
int location;
int destination;
int price;
Scanner skanneri = new Scanner(System.in);
// read in users location
System.out.println("Welcome to the price calculator");
System.out.println("What is your location?");
System.out.println("0. Center ");
System.out.println("1. Kaisaniemi ");
System.out.println("2. Kamppi");
System.out.println("3. Eira ");
System.out.println("4. Kallio ");
System.out.println(" ");
System.out.println("Write number 0 to 4 ");
location=skanneri.nextInt();
// read in users destination
System.out.println("What is your destination?");
System.out.println("0. Center ");
System.out.println("1. Kaisaniemi ");
System.out.println("2. Kamppi");
System.out.println("3. Eira ");
System.out.println("4. Kallio ");
System.out.println(" ");
System.out.println("Write number 0 to 4 ");
destination=skanneri.nextInt();

//find out the price and display it
price=getPrice(location, destination); //send to the getPrice
System.out.println(" This delivery costs "+price+" euros");
}
}

Please edit your code and wrap code tags around your code so we can read it. Do something like:

[code=java]
< your code goes here>
[/code]

Here you go:

Code java:

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/**
 * The program provides the user with the prices for a courrier service.
 */
 
import java.util.*;
public class CourierService {
    public static int getPrice (int location, int destination) {
 
        int[][] myNumbers = new int[5][5];
        Scanner skanneri = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("A price table looks like the example below: ");
        System.out.println("           Center Kaisaniemi Kamppi Eira Kallio ");
        System.out.println("Center       10       20       30    40    50 ");
        System.out.println("Kaisaniemi   20       10       40    30    30 ");
        System.out.println("Kamppi       30       40       10    20    60 ");
        System.out.println("Eira         40       30       20    10    50 ");
        System.out.println("Kallio       50       30       60    50    10 ");
        System.out.println("Now enter the daily prices for the different routes: ");
        System.out.println("Start providing all the numbers for Center and then move on to Kaisaniemi and further: ");
        for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
        for (int j=0; j<5; j++)
        myNumbers[i][j] = skanneri.nextInt();
        int price = myNumbers[location][destination];
        return(price);
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args ) {
        int location;
        int destination;
        int price;
        Scanner skanneri = new Scanner(System.in);
        // read in users location
        System.out.println("Welcome to the price calculator");
        System.out.println("What is your location?");
        System.out.println("0. Center ");
        System.out.println("1. Kaisaniemi ");
        System.out.println("2. Kamppi");
        System.out.println("3. Eira ");
        System.out.println("4. Kallio ");
        System.out.println(" ");
        System.out.println("Write number 0 to 4 ");
        location=skanneri.nextInt();
        // read in users destination
        System.out.println("What is your destination?");
        System.out.println("0. Center ");
        System.out.println("1. Kaisaniemi ");
        System.out.println("2. Kamppi");
        System.out.println("3. Eira ");
        System.out.println("4. Kallio ");
        System.out.println(" ");
        System.out.println("Write number 0 to 4 ");
        destination=skanneri.nextInt();
 
        //find out the price and display it
        price=getPrice(location, destination); //send to the getPrice
        System.out.println(" This delivery costs "+price+" euros");
    }
}

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