Very simple code for number search gives me infinite loop
- by Joshua
Hello,
I am a newbie Computer Science high school student and I have trouble with a small snippet of code. Basically, my code should perform a basic CLI search in an array of integers. However, what happens is I get what appears to be an infinite loop (BlueJ, the compiler I'm using, gets stuck and I have to reset the machine). I have set break points but I still don't quite get the problem...(I don't even understand most of the things that it tells me)
Here's the offending code (assume that "ArrayUtil" works, because it does):
import java.util.Scanner;
public class intSearch
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
search();
}
public static void search()
{
int[] randomArray = ArrayUtil.randomIntArray(20, 100);
Scanner searchInput = new Scanner(System.in);
int searchInt = searchInput.nextInt();
if (findNumber(randomArray, searchInt) == -1)
{
System.out.println("Error");
}else System.out.println("Searched Number: " + findNumber(randomArray, searchInt));
}
private static int findNumber(int[] searchedArray, int searchTerm)
{
for (int i = 0; searchedArray[i] == searchTerm && i < searchedArray.length; i++)
{
return i;
}
return -1;
}
}
This has been bugging me for some time now...please help me identify the problem!
