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Martin

Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:59 pm


No pointers...hmm...

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Okay, I have a set of 5 objects, each of which is storing a number. I need to return the object associated with the lowest number. With C++, I could use a pointer, but how would I do this with Java?


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Dan

Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:05 pm



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have u tryed just retruning the object? lol

ie.     return objectName


or am i missing the point of your post?


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rizzix

Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:08 pm



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assuming you define a method for each object to retrive the value of the stored number as getNumber

then all you need to do is probably something like this (assuming that the 5 objects are in an array called objects and StoringObject is the name of the class that defines these objects)

StoringObject obj = objects[0];

for (StoringObject o : objects)
    if (obj.getNumber() < o.getNumber())
        obj = o;


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Martin

Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:09 pm



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Yeah, nevermind, it was a dumb question. I'm just slow lately.