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Re: can't return value

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From	Stuart <DerTopper@web.de>
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Subject	Re: can't return value
Date	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:53:46 +0200
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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

Thread

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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