Question

I’m trying to get a program so that it loops and adds up the sum of an array. My code appears to be working, with the exception that it states that the text[j] in adding = adding + text[j] is an incompatible type (I’m assuming data type). Earlier in the code, I have int adding = 0;. This is the erroneous code:

for (int j=0;j<=total;j++){
       adding = adding + text[j];
       System.out.println(text[j]);
    }

where total is the limiting factor. If I put:

for (int j=0;j<= total;j++){
       adding = adding + j;
       System.out.println(text[j]);
    }

the program compiles but gives 45, which is incorrect.

Why is this happening? Thanks!

Answer 1

The answer actually turned out to be outside the code given. I had set my array to be a String, not an int as it should have been.