Question

I have a task to operate on complex number. Each number consists of double r = real part, double i = imaginary part and String name. Name must be set within constructor, so I’ve created int counter, then I’m sending its value to setNextName function and get name letter back. Unfortunately incrementing this ‘counter’ value works only within costructor and then it is once again set to 0. How to deal with that?Some constant value? And second problem is that I also need to provide setNextNames(char c) function that will change the counter current value.

The code :

public class Imaginary {

private double re;
private double im;
private String real;
private String imaginary;
private String name;
private int counter=0;

public Imaginary(double r, double u){
    re = r;
    im = u;
    name = this.setNextName(counter);
    counter++;
}

public static String setNextName(int c){

    String nameTab[] = {"A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N",
                        "O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","W","V","X","Y","Z"};

    String setName = nameTab[c];
    System.out.println("c: "+c);
    return setName;
}

public static String setNextName(char c){

//
//don't know how to deal with this part
//
}

Answer 1

It’s hard to tell what you’re doing, but I suspect this will solve your immediate problem:

private static int counter = 0;