[GiveMeYourBagel]

Hi, i'm having a bit of trouble understanding how you use variables in different methods. For example im getting some information from the user in 1 method and storing it in an arraylist. In another method i want to display the information from the arraylist, but it says that it can't find the variable or arraylist. How do i use the same information and variables in different methods? Can someone include example code to explain please?

[RedPhoenix]

Variables created inside methods ("local variables") are not accessible outside of the method. The fix for this is to use a class variable that both methods can then access. The pseudo code might look something like this:

public class Example{
	private ArrayList input;

	public void setInput(){
		//take your user input and store it in the variable input
	 }

	 public void doSomething(){
	  //do something with input
	  }

}

[GiveMeYourBagel]

So whats the command or how do you access the class variables from the methods?

[RedPhoenix]

assigning values etc is exactly the same as it would be any other time, just make sure that the variable is initialized

	private ArrayList input;

	public void setInput(){
		input=new ArrayList();
		//add stuff to input like input.add(index, object); 
	 }

	 public void doSomething(){
	  //do something with input like input.get(index);
	  }