Question

I need to find how many votes each one has. I have a count that counted how many candidates there are in play which was 5. And now I have a bunch of numbers from the arraylist that I need to count happy voted each candidate and the number of candidates changes depending on which arraylist I use but for test purposes I am using test5 which has 5.

 //Numbers from arraylist:
1
1
2
5
2
5
5
5

this is my code

// My code
for (int i=1; i <output.size(); i++){
        char checkBallot = output.get(i).charAt(1); 
        //candidate is array to track how many output as what 
                    // output is array of numbers I want to count. 
        String aString = Character.toString(checkBallot);
        int c = Integer.parseInt(aString);
        int b = c; 
        for (int p= 0; p < count; p++){
            if(c == p+1){
                int oldvalue =0; 
                candidate[c] = c+ oldvalue ;
                oldvalue = c ;
                System.out.println("this is the counter:" +c);
            }

        }

Answer 1

I think you should get rid of oldvalue and use ++candidate[c]; instead of those three lines. Assuming I understand your code, and I barely do.