No pointers...hmm...

[Martin]

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?

[Dan]

have u tryed just retruning the object? lol

ie. return objectName


or am i missing the point of your post?

[rizzix]

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)

code:

StoringObject obj = objects[0]; for (StoringObject o : objects)     if (obj.getNumber() < o.getNumber())         obj = o;

[Martin]

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