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Thread: Need help with boolean method! =(

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    Default Need help with boolean method! =(

    Ok so here's my code. It has to check if all the array word members of "this" and "wca" array are same.
    If theyre the same i need true.. But if only one of them is wrong it has to give false.

    I know this code is wrong, i use the wordEqual = true or false lines at wrong places. I can't seem to solve it

    If one of the members is wrong, i think it will go to the next member and get the boolean as true again.
    I thought maybe i could break the loop if its an "else", but im not sure if this is completely right. Help please?

    private boolean wordsEqual (WordCountArray wca){
    boolean wordsEqual = false;
    for (int i = 0; i < wca.size(); i++) {
    if (this.getWord(i).equals(wca.getWord(i))) {
    if (this.getIndex(getWord(i)) == (wca.getIndex(getWord(i)))) {
    wordsEqual = true;;

    }
    else {
    break;
    }
    }
    else {
    break;
    }
    wordsEqual = true;
    }
    wordsEqual = false;
    return wordsEqual;


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    Default Re: Need help with boolean method! =(

    So you want to return false if just one of them are not equal, right?

    Hint: That was a hint.

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    Default Re: Need help with boolean method! =(

    yes, i still cant figure it out, im a beginner =/

    The Index and Word values of two arrays have to be same.

    Otherwise it has to be false,

    is this code true ? or is there a cleaner version maybe ?

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    Default Re: Need help with boolean method! =(

    Ooooh right ... ok i changed the both "break"s to "return false;"

    thats true right ? =)

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    Default Re: Need help with boolean method! =(

    I don't know, does it work? Does it do what you'd expect?

    If you post your updated code, I can maybe give you some other pointers. Don't forget the code tags though.

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