Question

I’ve been using eclipse, and it throws up an error whenever I try to change a value stored in a character array.
Code:

    import java.util.Scanner;

public class test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        char monstername[] = {'e', 'v', 'i', 'l'};
        String monster = new String(monstername);
        System.out.println("Hello!");
        System.out.println("You are attacked by a " + monster);
        monstername[] = {'t', 'v', 'i', 'l'};
        System.out.println("You are attacked by a " + monster);
    }
}

I tried updating the library but it didn’t work.

Answer 1

monstername[] = {'t', 'v', 'i', 'l'};

Won’t work for two reasons.

1. It’s not valid syntax, so the compiler doesn’t know what to do with it.
2. You need to create a new instance of the variable

.

monstername = new char[] {'t', 'v', 'i', 'l'};

Because monster has already being declared as a char array (char[]), you don’t need to use [] in the second statement