[applemad20]

Ive created a Person class, The Class will hold the following information:

• forename
  
• surname
  
• age
  
• height (in metres)
  
• gender

These variables will be stroed using Private variables. Here Is My Code For the Person class so far:

public class Person
{
	private String foreName;
	private String surName;
	private int age;
	private double height;
	private String gender;
	


	
	public Person(String foreName, String surName, int age, double height, String gender)
	{
		this.foreName = foreName;
		this.surName = surName;
		this.age = age;
		this.height = height;
		this.gender = gender;
		
		
	}
	
	public String toString()
	{
		return "Person[foreName = " + foreName + "]";
	}
	

Now i need to add appropriate get and set methods for each variable, How would i go about on doing this?

Thanks

[Crunch]

well i guess you don't understand what get and set methods actually to do. Well basically the idea is very simple. With a set method you set a value to a private variable and with get you retrieve its value.

for example in your code if you were to write the get and set methods for the private variable foreName

public String getForeName(){
return foreName;
}

public void setForeName(String foreName){
this.foreName = foreName;}

[g00se]

Surname and forename are one word each btw, so don't need to be in camel case

[applemad20]

I need to write a format mathod which will print out the variable data using the format method.

The data must be printed in a table tabbed way like this:

Sam Jones 56 2.4 Male
Sally

[v0rtex]

You would handle that in your overriden toString method:
You would simply print out the object's attributes in the correct formatting so for example:

public String toString() {
System.out.println(foreName + " " + surName + " " + age + " " + height + " " + gender;
}

Remember to parse the integer variable age (not done in solution above, I am sure you can figure it out )

[applemad20]

i Have to write a format()method for which constructs a string containing formatting information such that when the string is printed the data values are neatly aligned in columns and thus suitable for screen display similar to the following.

Joe Williams 67 7.2 male
Sally Roberts 45 2.3 female

[pbl]

Use printf() using %Ns format where N as a value like %20s for the String and %5.2f for the double

if it is for the toString() method use String.format("%10s %10s %2d %5.2f %8s", ...

This post has been edited by pbl: 26 November 2012 - 01:04 PM

[applemad20]

With the String.format("%10s %10s %2d %5.2f %8s",.....,.....,.....,.....,.....);

It does the columbs does anyone know how i can get them to centre align?

This is the output i get when i run the program:



This is the code i have for my method:

public String format()
	{
    return String.format("%10s %10s %10d %10.2f %10s", getForeName() , getSurName() , getAge() , getHeight() , getGender());
	}

Thanks

[pbl]

"%-10s" would left aligned

Center aligned would be a bit more complicated, you will to format() it on a String using a simple %s then to prefix and append a " " until the desired length is obtained

[applemad20]

SOLVED NOW Thanks.........