Question

The problem is to write the paragraph 5 different times. Each paragraph has a different cage number and corresponding animal. So cage 1 has a lion and cage 2 has a tiger. The problem is I don’t know how to combine both the cage number the different corresponding animal in the same paragraph.

I don’t know how to enter the switch statement in the second line of the paragraph. I tried writing println(“This cage holds a ” + i); but Eclipse gave me an error. How do i incorporate both variables n and i in the same paragraph at the same time?

import acm.program.*;

public class ZooAnimals extends ConsoleProgram {
    private static final int START = 1; 

    public void run(){
        for (int n = START; n <=5; n++ ) {
             println("This animal is in cage" + n);
             println("This cage holds a " );  <---- type of animal goes in here. 
             println("Wild animals are very dangerous.");
        }       

        for(int i = START; i<=5; i++) {
              switch(i) { 
                   case 1: println("lion");
                   case 2: println("tiger");
                   case 3: println("elephant");
                   case 4: println("snakes");
                   case 5: println("hippo");
              }                   
        } 

    }
}

Answer 1

I would write a small method like so:

public String getAnimal(int cage)
{
     switch(cage) { 
           case 1: return "lion";
           case 2: return "tiger";
           case 3: return "elephant";
           case 4: return "snakes";
           case 5: return "hippo";
           default: return "Animal Not Found!";
           }    

}

I would then replace this code:

for (int n = START; n <=5; n++ ) {
  println("This animal is in cage" + n);
  println("This cage holds a " );     <-----------type of animal goes in here. 
  println("Wild animals are very dangerous.");
             }

with this:

for (int n = START; n <=5; n++ ) {
  println("This animal is in cage" + n);
  println("This cage holds a " + getAnimal(n));     <-----------type of animal goes in here. 
  println("Wild animals are very dangerous.");
             }