Inventory Woes

[MonolithTMA]

Greetings all,

I am new here, and aside from my introductory post, this will be my first.

I am working on an Inventory program for a class I am taking. I've searched the forums here and have seen other people working on the same or similar projects, but the problem I run into is that in Java, there seems to be more than one way to skin a cat. (No cats were harmed in the writing of this post.)

I am able to enter multiple items and their values, and I can get the total for each item. The part I am at now is trying to add the multiple items in my array together. I've read through several chapters on arrays in several books. I've scoured the web. yet it seems I can't find it. I know I'm probably missing something simple. Any help would be appreciated. I will include my code below.

This is the class that defines the data:

class CDData {
    String[] cdName;
    int[] cdQuantity;
    int[] cdNumber;
    double[] invTotalValue;
    double T;
}
 

This is the Main class:

import java.util.*; // Initialize scanner for user input
 
public class CDInventory {
 
    /** Creates a new instance of CDInventory*/
    public CDInventory() {
    }
 
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        CDData onlyCDData = new CDData();
 
        System.out.println(""); // blank line
        System.out.println("\t************************");
        System.out.println("\t** Audio CD Inventory **"); // Display Title
        System.out.println("\t************************");
        System.out.println(); // blank line
 
        // Begin Input Section
 
        /*Ask how many CDs to input. This will give us the itteration for our Array loop. */
 
        boolean stop = false;
        while (!stop) {
            Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in ); // Load Scanner for input
            System.out.println("How many audio CDs would you like to enter today? Enter 0 to quit."); // Request amount of CDs to enter.
 
 
            int count; // enteredAmount
            count = input.nextInt(); // Input amount of CDs to enter.
 
            /* Check for 0 */
 
            if ( count == 0 ) {
                System.out.println("Thank you. The program has now ended");
                System.out.println(); // blank line
                stop = true;
            } else {
 
                /*The amount of CDs has been decided, now we begin to gather data from the user, specific to each CD. */
 
 
                for (int i=0; i < count; i++) {
                    /*CD Name input. */
 
                    onlyCDData.cdName = new String[count];
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    System.out.println("Please input new CD Name:");
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    onlyCDData.cdName[i] = input.next(); // Input CD Name
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
 
                    /*CD number input. */
 
                    onlyCDData.cdNumber = new int[count];
                    System.out.println("Please input the CD number:");
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    onlyCDData.cdNumber[i] = input.nextInt(); // Input CD Number.
 
                    /*CD quantity input. */
 
                    onlyCDData.cdQuantity = new int[count];
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    System.out.println("Please input the CD quantity:");
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    onlyCDData.cdQuantity[i] = input.nextInt(); // Input CD quantity
 
                    /*CD quantity can't be a negative number. */
 
                    while (onlyCDData.cdQuantity[i] < 0) {
                        System.out.println("Sorry, the quantity must be a positive number.");
                        System.out.println("Please input the CD quantity:");
                        System.out.println(); // blank line
                        onlyCDData.cdQuantity[i] = input.nextInt(); // Input CD quantity
                    }
 
                    /*CD price input. */
 
                    onlyCDData.cdPrice = new float[count];
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    System.out.println("Please enter the CD price:");
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    onlyCDData.cdPrice[i] = input.nextFloat(); // Input CD price
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
 
                    /*CD price can't be a negative number or zero. */
 
                    while (onlyCDData.cdPrice[i] <= 0) {
                        System.out.println("Sorry, the CD price must be a positive number.");
                        System.out.println("Please enter the CD price:");
                        System.out.println(); // blank line
                        onlyCDData.cdPrice[i] = input.nextFloat(); // Input CD price
                    }
 
                    // End Input Section
 
                    // Calculate and Dis-play
                    onlyCDData.invTotalValue = new double[count];
                    onlyCDData.invTotalValue[i] = (double) onlyCDData.cdQuantity[i] * onlyCDData.cdPrice[i];
 
                    System.out.println("- - - - - - - - - -");
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
                    System.out.printf( "CD Number " );
                    System.out.print( onlyCDData.cdNumber[i] );
                    System.out.printf( " is titled:" );
                    System.out.printf( " " );
                    System.out.printf( onlyCDData.cdName[i] );
                    System.out.printf( ". " );
                    System.out.print( "There are " );
                    System.out.print( onlyCDData.cdQuantity[i] );
                    System.out.printf( " " );
                    System.out.printf( "In stock." );
                    System.out.printf( " " );
                    System.out.printf( onlyCDData.cdName[i] );
                    System.out.printf( "'s total inventory value is: $%,.2f\n", onlyCDData.invTotalValue[i]);
                    System.out.println(); // blank line
 
                    if(i == count - 1) {
                        //This is where I want to add all the intTotalValue's together to make up T., but I have no idea what to do.
                        //onlyCDData.T = All of the onlyCDData.invTotalValue added together.
                        System.out.printf( "The total inventory value of all CDs combined is: $%,.2f\n", onlyCDData.T);
                        System.out.println("Thank you. The program has now ended");
                        System.exit(0);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
 

Now, as it is written, it works, but the last two comments indicate the part I can't figure out. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Mike

[MonolithTMA]

In my zealousness to present clean, nice looking code, I managed to remove.

float[] cdPrice;

class CDData is actually:

class CDData {
    String[] cdName;
    int[] cdQuantity;
    int[] cdNumber;
    float[] cdPrice;
    double[] invTotalValue;
    double T;
}
 

[Ganon11]

You may want to consider using an array of CDData objects. Instead of using arrays for each value of CDs, you could have each CDData object hold the value on one CD - its name, amount, price, etc. Then, when you needed to total up the values, you would just traverse your array of CDData objects and add the corresponding element.

If you have to use the CDData class as it is now, then simply start another loop (from 0 < count) and add that invTotalValue to your overall total.

[MonolithTMA]

Thanks! I really apreciate your help.

I just added the line:

onlyCDData.T = (onlyCDData.T + onlyCDData.invTotalValue[i]);

and that did it!

I knew it was something simple.

So, I could make the entire class an array? That makes sense. Time to do some more reading now.

Thanks again!

Best regards,
Mike