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loops

Posted by Ally Wood on January 02, 2001 at 10:05 PM

> you have to declare the variable before the loop
> int sum=0;

> > In my loop I want to add the integers from my array up, the compiler says that sum is an undefined
> > variable. However if I Put in -- int sum = 0 then I'm not getting the sum of these integers only the last
> > integer at the end of the loop. How can I get around this?? From Ally Wood redally@iname.com
> >
> > (new InputStreamReader (System.in)) ;

> > for (int no = 0 ; no < numbers.length; no++) {
> > System.out.println(" Enter the integer " + (no+1)) ;
> > System.out.print(no + 1) ;
> > System.out.print(":") ;
> > numbers[no] = Integer.parseInt(stdin.readLine( ) ) ;
> > sum += numbers[no]; } // can't define varible sum
> > if (no == numbers.length - 1)
> > System.out.println("The Sum is: " + sum) ;
> >
> > }
> > My code is (Above) is trying to add integers from an array to
> > sum. However the compiler says sum varible is not declared.
> > If I add-- int sum = 0 --I'm not getting all the integers only the last. if I just add--int sum--it says it is not initialised.How can I around this?

> >