Question

Suppose I have a custom object set up in a class similar to this.

public class anObject {

  public String id, otherProperty;

    public anObject(){
       this.id = "1";
       this.otherProperty = "cat";
    }
}

Then I create an array of these objects in another class

anObject[] objects = new anObject[40];
for(int i=0; i < 40; i++){
    objects[i] = new anObject();
}

What can I do then to find the first object in the array that has an id of 2 (for example)?

Answer 1

anObject found = null;

for(int i=0; i < 40; i++){
  if ("2".equals(object[i].id)) {
    // found it
    found = object[i];
    break; // exit the loop
  }
}

Or am I missing something?

EDIT: added the break. Also, there is a convention that class names begin with an uppercase letter, such as AnObject.