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[joshft91]

Hey guys -

Alright, so for this assignment, we're "simulating" entering high temperature values into an array. The array is of size 32, and each index in the array corresponds to the day (hence why the a[0] is an invalid temperature).

Here's the code.

public static void loadManuel(int[] a) {
		int length = a.length;
		a[0] = 2043;
		for (int i = 1; i < length; i++) {
			System.out.print(i + " - ");
 
			a[i] = scanner.nextInt();
		}
 
	}

This code will work just fine, but sometimes when we're entering the temperature values we're supposed to "miss a day". What I'm wondering is, how do I make the code keep going even if there isn't data entered for that particular index?

Thanks

[KevinWorkman]

What does the user do to indicate a day is missing? Enter some other value? Simply press enter? Something else?

How do you want the missing days represented? As some invalid temperature (what would that be)? As a null value? Do you want the size of the array to change, only including valid temperatures? Do you care about being able to tell which day had which temperature?

[joshft91]

Right now, when I press the run button in Eclipse, it will start at number 1 and ask the user to enter an integer. If I press enter without entering anything, the program will quit. Since the teacher wants us to compute the average later on, I'd assume we want the value to be null since if we filled it with an invalid temperature that would affect the average.

The array size will stay the same.

The system.out.println(" - ") just means it'll put a dash. For example, if I enter 5 for a high at the date (index) 13, my result would look like "13 - 5".

[KevinWorkman]

That's all well and good, but you still haven't told us how a user indicates that an index should be skipped, or what that means really.

If you want to store null values in your array, you'll have to make it an array of Integers instead of ints. Integers are Objects, which are null by default, whereas ints are primitives, which are 0 by default.

Also, why are you filling the first spot of the array (index 0) with an invalid value? Why not just make the array one index smaller?