Hey guys,
I'm doing a school assignment for my Object Oriented Java programing class. Here's the assignment requirements:

"There are five kinds of flowers, and their associated costs. Create an array of strings that holds the names of these flowers. Create another array that holds the cost of each corresponding flower. Your program should read the name of a flower and the quantity desireed by a customer. Locate the flower in the name array and use that index to find the cost per stem in the cost array. Compute and print the total cost of the sale. Write your solution in one class: FlowerCounterArray.
The solution should implement the following two methods:\
- addOrder(String flowerName, int quantity) to add to the order. This is in addition to reading from the terminal.
- printTotal() to print out the total cost to the terminal."

I wrote up some code so far and I want to test it, but I am getting this error: "']' expected" on the newFlower[0] = new FlowerCounterArrays("petunia", 0.50); line near the end of the code.

Here's my code:


Thanks for the help guys! Much appreciated!

This post has been edited by he4dhuntr: 14 Oct, 2008 - 12:43 PM

change this


to

you opened a parenthesis and closed it with a bracket, that doesn't work

Yea sorry, that was a typo when I pasted the code in here. The actual code has a ) at the end of it. Still getting the same error message though! Any other ideas? Thanks so far!

Well, if you are getting the same error my guess is that you have a typo somewhere else in your program, somewhere you are missing a bracket, or parenthesis...

I figured out the problem. I had the assignment outside of any method, just free floating in the body of the class. I fixed it by moving the code, but now I get a new error: "cannot find symbol - constructor FlowerCounterArrays(java.lang.String,double)"
I get this error on my newFlower[0] = new FlowerCounterArrays("petunia", 0.50); line

I'm kind of new to all this, so I'm not 100% on how everything should be done. I really appreciate the help thought! Here's my new code:



Thanks for the help so far!

This post has been edited by he4dhuntr: 14 Oct, 2008 - 01:09 PM

As the error message says, your class FlowerCounterArrays does not have a constructor.

FlowerCountersArray has:
- a method named: addOrder
- a method named: printTotal

but no constructor and you call 5 times the constructor:

newFlower[0] = new FlowerCounterArrays("petunia", 0.50);
newFlower[1] = new FlowerCounterArrays("pansy", 0.75);
newFlower[2] = new FlowerCounterArrays("rose", 1.50);
newFlower[3] = new FlowerCounterArrays("violet", 0.50);
newFlower[4] = new FlowerCounterArrays("carnation", 0.80);

that expects a String as first parameter and a double as second parameter