hey guys am working on a conversion program at the minute just messing really and i was wondering how i could get this damn thing working what i've got is a **** load of data in to multidimensional arrays 1 2 dimensional one and 1 3 dimensional one well heres what i've got any way.


what am trying to acomplish here is to setup a joption pain gui which when say a user enters a number it brings up a value within my miltidimensional array this may seem completely basic to u but bare in mind i am a noobie:D
import javax.swing.*;

public class arraytest
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        new arraytest();
    }




    public arraytest()
    {

        /*aray of names and categories defined*/
        String names [][] = new String [3][2];

        names[0][0]="Fred Grindle";
        names[0][1]="Test Male";

        names[1][0]="Emma Warber";
        names[1][1]="Test Female";

        names[2][0]="James Fletch";
        names[2][1]="Control Female";




        String number = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter a number which resembles the weight value you wish to be converted\n Name\t\t Weight 1\t\t Weight 2\t\tweight 3");
        int num = Integer.parseInt(number);
        String names = "";
        switch(num)
        {
        case 1:
                names="Fred Grindle";
                break;
        case 2:
                names="Emma Warber";
                break;
        case 3:
                names="James Fletch";
                break;

        }
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"the name you chose was"+names);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Thankyou Goodbye");
        System.exit(0);
    }
}


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I dont really get what your asking but to iterate(go through) the items in an array, u can use a 'for' loop.

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    {

        /*aray of names and categories defined*/
        String names [][] = new String [3][2];

        names[0][0]="Fred Grindle";
        names[0][1]="Test Male";

        names[1][0]="Emma Warber";
        names[1][1]="Test Female";

        names[2][0]="James Fletch";
        names[2][1]="Control Female";




        String number = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter a number which resembles the weight value you wish to be converted\n Name\t\t Weight 1\t\t Weight 2\t\tweight 3");
        int num = Integer.parseInt(number);
        String names1 = "";
        switch(num)
        {
        case 1:
                names1="Fred Grindle";
                break;
        case 2:
                names1="Emma Warber";
                break;
        case 3:
                names1="James Fletch";
                break;

        }
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"the name you chose was"+names1);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Thankyou Goodbye");
        System.exit(0);
    }