[Bluej-discuss] Exercise 4.19 from the book....

[Vivie]

Colleen Penrowley wrote:

>Hi,
>
>The way you have written your code, the "not found" message will be printed 
>for each item in the notebook that does not contain the search term. So if 
>the matching note is in position 2, you will see "not found" for positions 
>0 and 1, and then the note from position 2.
>
>What you want to do is search through the entire notebook before printing 
>the "not found" message. So you need it to come after the loop, not inside 
>the loop.
>
>Colleen
>
>
>At 08:56 PM 8/11/2006 +0300, you wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello....
>>
>>I am studuying the book on my own and I have this question....
>>
>>in project Notebook1, I am trying to do exercise 4.19 , with the
>>iteration...
>>
>> I thought the program when we execute the search , would print only one
>>string...either the note that was found , or that it wasn't....
>>
>>but I saw it prints them both!! what's wrong with my code?
>>
>>I include the code...
>>
>>public void search(String searchString)
>>    {
>>        int index = 0;
>>        boolean found = false;
>>        while(index < notes.size() && !found) {
>>            String note = notes.get(index);
>>            if(note.contains(searchString)) {
>>                found = true;
>>               System.out.println(note);
>>              }
>>            else {
>>                System.out.println("Search term not found.");
>>                index++;
>>            }
>>        }
>>    }
>>
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Thank you so much Coleen..I did it and it worked!

Now I am stuck at the next exercise(4.20), I tried to do
public void listNotes()
    {
        for(String note : notes) {
            System.out.println(noteNumber + ": " + note);
        }
    }

But I get an error..I can understand because noteNumber is a local 
variable to showNotes only...

But I can't think of a workaround...

Should I make the noteNumber global? or something?