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    copied!<hr> <pre><code> **NEVERMIND, I CHEATED** </code></pre> <hr> <pre><code>Movie[] movies = new Movie[8]; movies[0] = new Movie("The Godfather", 1972); </code></pre> <p>Say I have a bunch of movies variables, how could I set a variable (call it year or something) to the year in the movies[] variable?</p> <p>(im in a programming class and my assignment was to debug a file, my only error left is that i need to make the year variable set to the year in movies[])</p> <p>Heres my complete code:</p> <pre><code>import javax.swing.*; public class DebugNine2 { public static void main(String[] args) { Movie[] movies = new Movie[8]; Movie[] year; int i; String message, entry; movies[0] = new Movie("The Godfather", 1972); movies[1] = new Movie("The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", 1966); movies[2] = new Movie("Pulp Fiction", 1994); movies[3] = new Movie("Shindler's List", 1993); movies[4] = new Movie("Casablanca", 1942); movies[5] = new Movie("Wizard of Oz", 1939); movies[6] = new Movie("Citizen Kane", 1941); movies[7] = new Movie("Some Like It Hot", 1959); entry = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Sort Movies by\n(N)ame, or (Y)ear"); if(entry.equals("N")) { nameSort(movies); message = "Sorted by Name\n"; } else { year=movies; yearSort(year); message = "Sorted by Year\n"; } display(movies, message); //System.out.println(movies+"\n"+message); } public static void nameSort(Movie[] array) { int a, b; int highSub = array.length - 1; for(a = 0; a &lt; highSub; ++a) { for(b = 0; b &lt; highSub; ++b) { String first = array[b].getName(); String second = array[b + 1].getName(); if(first.compareTo(second) &gt; 0) { Movie temp = array[b]; array[b] = array[b + 1]; array[b + 1] = temp; } } } } public static void yearSort(Movie[] array) { int a, b; Movie temp; int highSub = array.length; for (a = 0; a &lt; highSub; ++a) { for (b = 0; b &lt; highSub; ++b) if (array[b].getYear() &gt; array[b + 1].getYear()) { temp = array[b]; array[b] = array[b + 1]; array[b + 1] = temp; } } } public static void display(Movie[] s, String msg) { for (int i = 0; i &lt; 8; i++) msg = msg + s[i].getName() + ", " + s[i].getYear() + "\n"; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, msg); } } </code></pre> <p>additionally, there is a file called Movie.java which contains the code</p> <pre><code>public class Movie { private String name; private int year; Movie(String s, int y) { name = s; year = y; } public String getName() { return name; } public int getYear() { return year; } } </code></pre>
 

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