about arrays

[Kamani Ellegama]

class Animal {
void makeNoise() {System.out.println("generic noise"); }
}
class Dog extends Animal {
void makeNoise() {System.out.println("bark"); }
void playDead() { System.out.println("roll over"); }
}
class CastTest2 {
public static void main(String [] args) {
Animal [] a = {new Animal(), new Dog(), new Animal() };
for(Animal animal : a) {
animal.makeNoise();
Dog d=(Dog) animal{
if(animal instanceof Dog) {
animal.playDead();
}
}
}
}
}

im in confusing thing that done in the for loop?(for(Animal animal:a) ) can you please describe it.

[deepak kushwaha]

this is the advanced format of run. It says for all object in the 'array a' will we assigned to Animal variable one by one. In other words first the new animal() object will be assigned to a and the loop will run, then new dog() will be assigned to 'a' and the loop will run again and so on for all the elements in array. and since dog is the subtype of animal this assignment is allowed.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Welcome to JavaRanch . use code tag while posting your code, so that it can be easy to read.

read this : http://www.javabeat.net/articles/32-new-features-in-java-50-1.html

by the way : code in your for loop is syntactically incorrect . is it compiled?

[Kamani Ellegama]

thanks

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Kamani Ellegama wrote:thanks

you are welcome

[Kamani Ellegama]

Seetharaman Venkatasamy wrote:Welcome to JavaRanch . use code tag while posting your code, so that it can be easy to read.

read this : http://www.javabeat.net/articles/32-new-features-in-java-50-1.html

by the way : code in your for loop is syntactically incorrect . is it compiled?

it should be change to
class CastTest2 {
public static void main(String [] args) {
Animal [] a = {new Animal(), new Dog(), new Animal() };
for(Animal animal : a) {
animal.makeNoise();
Dog d=(Dog) animal;
if(animal instanceof Dog) {
d.playDead();
}
}
}
}

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

instanceof operator check should be done before you cast Animal object to Dog.

   
for(Animal animal : a) {
animal.makeNoise();
if(animal instanceof Dog) {
Dog d=(Dog) animal;
d.playDead();
}
} 

[Kamani Ellegama]

   
class Animal {
	void makeNoise() {System.out.println("generic noise"); }
}
class Dog extends Animal {
	void makeNoise() {System.out.println("bark"); }
	void playDead() { System.out.println("roll over"); }
}
class CastTest2 {
	public static void main(String [] args) {
	Animal [] a = {new Animal(), new Dog(), new Animal() };
	for(Animal animal : a) {
		animal.makeNoise();
		if(animal instanceof Dog) {
			Dog d=(Dog) animal;		
			d.playDead();
			}
		}
	}
}
  

thanks again for helping.
above code compile perfectly but run time exception was thrown" Exception in thread ''main" java.long.NoclassDefFoundError: ClassTest2" when it run. can you please tel me the reason??

[Rene Larsen]

The name of the class is "CastTest2" - not "ClassTest2"

[Kamani Ellegama]

Rene Larsen wrote:The name of the class is "CastTest2" - not "ClassTest2"