Question

I need to search an object array for a Name and then print out all info corresponding to that name.

I have

public class AccessFriendlyFile {
private Friendlies[] fr = new Friendlies[100];
private int size = 0;

public AccessFriendlyFile (){
try {
    Scanner scFile = new Scanner(new File("Friends.txt"));
    String line, name, surname, cell, mail, landline;

    while (scFile.hasNext()){
        line = scFile.nextLine();
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(line).useDelimiter("#");
        name = sc.next();
        surname = sc.next();
        cell = sc.next();

        if (sc.hasNext()){
            mail = sc.next();
            landline= sc.next();
            fr[size] = new ExtendFriendlies(name, surname, cell, mail, landline);

        }

        else {
            fr[size]= new Friendlies(name, surname, cell);
        }

        size++;
        sc.close();
    }

}catch (FileNotFoundException ex){
    System.out.println("File not found");
}

How do I code a method that will search “fr” for a name and print out all corresponding info?

Many Thanks
Jesse

Edit:
Here is my Search method, that is currently not working.

public int Search(String name) {
    int loop = 0;
    int pos = -1;
    boolean found = false;
    while (found == false) {
        if (fr[loop] == name) {
            found = true;
            pos = loop;
        } else {
            loop++;
        }
    }

    return pos;
}

Incomparable types error on the if statement.

Answer 1

I would suggest that you rename your variables here. The Friendlies class stores, I think, a single contact, a Friend. The list of Friend objects is an array that you might beter name friendList or even friendlies. I would also encourage you to not use size as a counter variable. Size is how many friends you have, and you can iterate through them using i, or friendCounter, or use a for each loop as I demonstrate below,

public Friendlies find(String name) {
    for(Friendlies friend : fr) {
        if(friend.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(name))
            return fiend;
    }
    return null;

}

//now to print the info you can do this:
Friendlies findJoe = find("Joe");
if(findJoe==null)
    System.out.println("You have no friends namd Joe.");
else
    System.out.println(findJoe);

My code assumes that you implement toString() in Friendlies. If you use netbeans, you can auto-generate this code and then tweak it to get the format you want. (Just right-click where you want to write the method and choose insert code)