[bedrockhorror]

Hey guys my instructor wants me to have my System.out.Println as a to string method. How do I go about switching it into a to string? I believe he wants the output to display like System.out.println(man1.toString()); but I dont know how to go about changing it to that.

public class FishermanDriver
{
		public static void main(String [] args )
		{
				// Create objects
				Fisherman man1 = new Fisherman();
				Fisherman man2 = new Fisherman();
				Fisherman man3 = new Fisherman();
				// Catch fishes
				man1.catchFish();
				man2.catchFish();
				man3.catchFish();
				// Display output
				System.out.println("Fisherman 1 caught: " + man1.getFishCaught() );
				System.out.println("Fisherman 2 caught: " + man2.getFishCaught() );
			   System.out.println("Fisherman 3 caught: " + man3.getFishCaught() );

		   System.out.println("Total Number of Fish caught by group: "
							  + Fisherman.getTotalFishCaught() );


		}
}

This post has been edited by bedrockhorror: 04 November 2009 - 12:17 PM

[Momerath]

I have no idea what you are asking, they look like strings to me.

[bedrockhorror]

bedrockhorror, on 4 Nov, 2009 - 10:27 AM, said:

Hey guys my instructor wants me to have my System.out.Println as a to string method. How do I go about switching it into a to string? I believe he wants the output to display like System.out.println(man1.toString()); but I dont know how to go about changing it to that.

public class FishermanDriver
{
		public static void main(String [] args )
		{
				// Create objects
				Fisherman man1 = new Fisherman();
				Fisherman man2 = new Fisherman();
				Fisherman man3 = new Fisherman();
				// Catch fishes
				man1.catchFish();
				man2.catchFish();
				man3.catchFish();
				// Display output
				System.out.println("Fisherman 1 caught: " + man1.getFishCaught() );
				System.out.println("Fisherman 2 caught: " + man2.getFishCaught() );
			   System.out.println("Fisherman 3 caught: " + man3.getFishCaught() );

		   System.out.println("Total Number of Fish caught by group: "
							  + Fisherman.getTotalFishCaught() );


		}
}

[Momerath]

And what did quoting your original post add to the discusion?

[NeoTifa]

Okay, a toString() is just a way of formatting text the way you want. And you would call it man1.toString(); and in the toString() method would be the System.out.println().

[sethkrepps]

So does your instructor want you to use a toString method to print out what

				System.out.println("Fisherman 1 caught:  " + man1.getFishCaught() );
				System.out.println("Fisherman 2 caught: " + man2.getFishCaught() );
			   System.out.println("Fisherman 3 caught: " + man3.getFishCaught() );

		   System.out.println("Total Number of Fish caught by group: "
							  + Fisherman.getTotalFishCaught() );

prints?

if so, You'll have to add to your class, and ill gladly help with that...but I'm not quite sure what you are asking?

like, within the class, does s/he want

	 public String toString(){
		  System.out.println("Fisherman 1 caught: " + this.getFishCaught() );
	 }

??

please elaborate. =]

This post has been edited by sethkrepps: 04 November 2009 - 04:41 PM

[bedrockhorror]

He wanted me to do this

public String toString() {
return fishCaught + ""; // convert fishCaught to a String and return it
}

Then for my Driver use this instead of having .getfishcaught just use +man1 instead

System.out.println("Fisherman 1 caught: " + man1 );

Sorry for the confusion guys, that was just the best way that I knew to ask it.

[pbl]

bedrockhorror, on 4 Nov, 2009 - 04:06 PM, said:

He wanted me to do this

public String toString() {
return fishCaught + ""; // convert fishCaught to a String and return it
}

Then for my Driver use this instead of having .getfishcaught just use +man1 instead

System.out.println("Fisherman 1 caught: " + man1 );

Sorry for the confusion guys, that was just the best way that I knew to ask it.

public String toString() {
return "" + fishCaught; // convert fishCaught to a String and return it
}

will do the job
now you can

System.out.println("Fisherman 1 caught: " + man1 );

without problem