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Dan Maia
1,078 PointsString lastSport = sports[5]; What is wrong with this answer adding a String object to the last of the array
It worked adding a variable to the beginning of the array why wont this work for the last element of the array. I am confused?
String[] sports = { "Basketball", "Baseball", "Tennis" };
String bestSport = sports[0];
int numberOfSports = sports.length;
String lastSport = sports[5];
2 Answers
James Simshaw
28,738 PointsYou're close to what the task is asking for, instead of using the 5 that you have for the index, to use the last element in the array, which would always be [array.length - 1] or in this case [numberOfSports - 1].
Michael Flynn
3,084 PointsWell for starters you only have 3 elements in the array, so the last element is at position 2 right now (remember arrays start at zero!).
Also you are not adding an element to the array, just setting a variable to the value at the position you specify!
To add an element to the array position you'd do something like sports[5] = "soccer";
Which would add the string "soccer" to the array at position 5.
James Simshaw
28,738 PointsYou also couldn't do sports[5] = "soccer";
This is because the array was created to have 3 elements and once an array is created it cannot be resized. An ArrayList, however, can change size.