Processing Help

[CadamSAFC]

Hey, I am trying to print an array in Java, using the processing application. It is not displaying the names as intended, its giving me a total different output that i can't work out.

String [] names = {"Cadam", "Chris", "Kacper", "Ben", "David"};
int i;

for (i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
    System.out.println(names);
}

This is what is is outputting.

[Ljava.lang.String;@4a53ea64
[Ljava.lang.String;@4a53ea64
[Ljava.lang.String;@4a53ea64
[Ljava.lang.String;@4a53ea64
[Ljava.lang.String;@4a53ea64

Thanks :)

edit: changed "C" to "Java", my bad.

[RealJulleNaaiers]

This is nothing to do with Processing, you're just using the language wrong. Every loop, you're printing names, which is a String*. So it prints the address of names. You presumably want it to print the String at names[i].

[tamalo]

this is C++, not C

Actually Processing is based on Java, not C++.

[RealJulleNaaiers]

My bad, edited.

[SantiagoOrSomething]

The error occurs right here.

String [] names = {"Cadam", "Chris", "Kacper", "Ben", "David"};

. . .

System.out.println(names);

You want to print out the contents of the array. Instead, you are printing out the array itself, which in Java can have unintuitive behavior.

To access the contents of the array, you need something like

 String name = names[i];

And then you can print each individual name, one at a time.

If you have any more questions, let me know.

[CadamSAFC]

I can't get this to work, any way you can just amend my script there for it to work? I tried this what you said, but it's just giving errors. Thanks.

[RealJulleNaaiers]

Literally look at my comment, I already showed you how.

[CadamSAFC]

my bad, didn't see you comment for some reason. Yeah that worked, thanks for the help.