Comparing integer with array

[frozenade]

Hello..

I need to compare an integer value with array list.
if (year > 1986) {
Integer[] twelve = {1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986};
while (year != twelve) {
year -= 12;
}
}
The code is very bad.

Would somebody please help me? :(

Thank you.

[brad211987]

I think you need to be more clear on what you are attempting to accomplish. Are you trying to see if the array contains the value of year? The way your code is set up from what I can see, you will probably end up in an infinite loop because an int value is never going to equal an array.

[Trinithis]

This is what I think you were trying to do

if(year > 1986) {
int[] years = {1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986};
boolean cont;
do {
cont = true;
for(int i = 0; i < years.length; ++i)
if(year == years[i])
cont = false;
if(cont)
year -= 12;
} while(cont);
}


This is what you probably should do

while(year > 1986)
year -= 12;

[Trinithis]

More along the lines of your original code:


java.util.List<Integer> twelve = java.util.Arrays.asList(1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986);
if(year > 1986)
while(!twelve.contains(year))
year -= 12;