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Thread: Doubt Regarding Printing an Array List

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    Default Doubt Regarding Printing an Array List

    [SIZE="3"]import java.util.ArrayList;
    class books
    {
    	String authour;
    	String title;
     
    }
     class booktest {
    	public static void main(String[] args)
    	{
    		int x=0;
    		ArrayList<books> myList =new ArrayList<books>();
    		 books a=new books();
    		 myList.add(a);
    		 a.authour="welcome";
    		 a.title="home";
    		 books b=new books();
    		 myList.add(b);
    		 b.authour="welc";
    		 b.title="ho";
    		 while(x<2)
    			 {
    			 	System.out.println(myList.add );//confused how to display the following thing
    			 	System.out.println();// how to display the following thing
    			 x=x+1;
    			 }
    			 }
     
    }[/SIZE]
    My query is how can we able to print the following program.

    I used System.out.println(books[x].authour)//i guess it is wrong and it is not compiled too


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    Post Re: Doubt Regarding Printing an Array List

    I tried 15 minutes and get something like this
    import java.util.ArrayList;

    class books
    {
    String authour;
    String title;

    public void print()
    {
    System.out.println("Author = " + this.authour + ". title = " + this.title);
    System.out.println();
    }

    }
    class booktest {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    int x=0;
    ArrayList<books> myList =new ArrayList<books>();
    books a=new books();
    myList.add(a);
    a.authour="welcome";
    a.title="home";
    books b=new books();
    myList.add(b);
    b.authour="welc";
    b.title="ho";
    while(x<2)
    {
    books value = myList.get(x);
    value.print();
    x=x+1;
    }
    }

    }
    If this isn't that u espect please contact with me, maybe I can help u

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    Default Re: Doubt Regarding Printing an Array List

    I appreciate your work.You have invoked method print and done it i guess.Thanks


    Well is it possible to directly provide arraylist in while statement
    while(x<2)

    {

    System.out.println(myList.add )//i mean here without invoking method print
    System.out.println();// how to display the following thing
    x=x+1;
    }

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    Default Re: Doubt Regarding Printing an Array List

    I don't know but I tried this method but it didn't work
    I used the myList.get(x) method but printed something like address.
    My advice write code in the classes how u can. And declare private everything u can.
    Maybe there is another solution of your problem but I don't know I am beginner

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    Default Re: Doubt Regarding Printing an Array List

    Are you just trying to print the contents of the ArrayList? You can use a for loop to do so:
    for ( int i = 0; i < myList.size(); i++ ){
        System.out.println(myList.get(i).author + " " myList.get(i).title);
    }

    An alternative way to do this is to 'print the object', overriding the toString() method of you books class

    class books
    {
    	String authour;
    	String title;
    	@Override public String toString(){
                return author + " " + title;
            }
    }
    ....
    for ( int i = 0; i < myList.size(); i++ ){
        System.out.println(myList.get(i));
    }

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    Default Re: Doubt Regarding Printing an Array List

    I would have done something along the line of:
    import java.util.ArrayList;
     
    class Book
    {
    	int bookid;
    	String author;
    	String title;	
    }
     
    class BookReader {
    	public static void main(String[] args)
    	{
    		Hashtable<String, Book> booklist = new Hashtable<int, Book>(); //now you can search with just the bookid
     
    		Book a = new Book();
    		a.bookid = 1;
    		a.author = "welcome";
    		a.title = "home";
    		booklist.putt(a.bookid, a);
     
    		Book b = new Book();
    		b.bookid = 2;
    		b.author = "welc";
    		b.title = "ho";
    		booklist.put(b.bookid, b);
     
    		for(Book book : booklist) //now you have the object directly available and can easily work with the object :)
    		{
    			String booktitle = (String)book.title;
    			String bookauthor = (String)book.author;
    			System.out.println("The book "+booktitle+" was written by: "+bookauthor);
    		}
    	}
    }

    ps. im at work right now so dont mind the possible syntax errors.
    Last edited by Bryan; April 20th, 2010 at 03:34 AM.

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