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    Default Incompatible types

    In the method addNoDuplicateSources, the if statement has an error message - incompatible types.
    The input parameter to the method is a string and the return parameter from the getSource() method
    is a String. Why would the if statement give an incompatible types message.?

    import java.util.*;
    public class AnotherWord
    {
        private String word;
        private Vector<String> sourceList;
        private int count;
     
        public AnotherWord( String word, String source )
        {
            this.word = word.toLowerCase();
            count = 1;
            sourceList = new Vector<String> (3,2);
            sourceList.add( (String) source );
        }
     
        public void addNoDuplicateSources( String sourceToAdd)
        {
            boolean found = false;
            for (int i = 0; i <= sourceList.size(); i++)
            {
                if ( getSource(i).compareToIgnoreCase(sourceToAdd) ) { found = true; }
            }
            if (!found) { sourceList.add( sourceToAdd ); }
        }
     
        public String getSource(int index) 
        { 
            String result = null;
            if (index >=0 && index < sourceList.size()) { result = sourceList.get(index); }
            return result;
        }
    }


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    Default Re: Incompatible types

    Please copy and post here the full text of the error message so we can see it.

    Why would the if statement give an incompatible types message.?
    The if statement requires a boolean expression inside of its ()s.
    Does the code inside of the ()s return a boolean value?
    Read the API doc to see what the method returns.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: Incompatible types

    problem is... compareToIgnoreCase() method returns "int" not "boolean"

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    Default Re: Incompatible types

    Using BlueJ --- the error message is simpy incompatible types

    and the variable sourceToAdd is highlighted in the if statement.

    tried to copy and paste, BlueJ wouldn't let me

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    Using BlueJ --- the error message is simpy incompatible types

    and the variable sourceToAdd is highlighted in the if statement.

    tried to copy and paste, BlueJ wouldn't let me

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    Default Re: Incompatible types

    duh sorry for bothering you

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    duh sorry for bothering you

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    Do you understand the problem now?
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