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Re: can't return value

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On 9/13/12 bilsch wrote:
>>> Based on what Jukka said I got it to work without using the for loop.
>>> OK. Now I see what Jukka meant by initializing to NULL.  But I don't
>>> know what exception to throw for 'misssing return statement'.  Also I

Stuart writes:
>> What Jukka probably meant to say is that you could throw an exception in
>> case your method could not extract a surname from the passed string. Like

On 9/13/12  Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
> No, I just meant that the original code WILL throw an
> ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if it doesn't find a space.
> Right here in the String#charAt method, when i reaches wholeName.length():
>
>        for (int i = 0; i <= wholeName.length(); i++){
>            if (wholeName.charAt(i)== ' '){
>
> and bilsh probably wants to avoid it.

Now I'm glad that I -- as an afterthought -- slipped the word "probably" 
into my sentence. Well, that's what one gets if one doesn't bother to 
check out the context (which was unfortunately missing).

Regards,
Stuart

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can't return value "bilsch" <king621@comcast.net> - 2012-09-12 00:36 -0700
  Re: can't return value Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-12 07:11 -0400
    Re: can't return value bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 22:15 -0700
      Re: can't return value Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-13 08:53 -0400
  Re: can't return value Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-09-12 15:32 +0300
    Re: can't return value bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 22:37 -0700
      Re: can't return value Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 23:17 -0700
        Re: can't return value markspace <-@.> - 2012-09-13 01:11 -0700
          Re: can't return value Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-13 10:53 -0700
      Re: can't return value Stuart <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-09-13 09:45 +0200
        Re: can't return value "bilsch" <king621@comcast.net> - 2012-09-13 03:55 -0700
        Re: can't return value Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-09-13 15:06 +0300
          Re: can't return value Stuart <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-09-13 20:53 +0200
  Re: can't return value Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-12 20:54 -0700

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