Re: compare biggest negative number

From:

"Daniel Pitts" <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

22 Nov 2006 10:02:56 -0800

Message-ID:

<1164218576.625678.319590@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>

w00 wrote:

Hello, i have to write a program in java where i have to enter three
different numbers, and it will output the largest number. So for
example:

input: 2, 4 ,6 => output: 7
input: 5, 2 ,1 => output: 5
input: 7, 9 ,3 => output: 9

My program works well, but not with negative values, cause it always
returns a 0.
So if i would enter the following:

input: -2, -4 -,6

Then the output should be -2, but i get a '0' instead. Any idea why
this is happening and what i can do to fix it?
Here's my code:

import javax.swing.*;

public class test
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        String input;
        int intNum;
        int prevNum=0;
        int output=0;

        for(int i=0; i<3; i++)
        {
            input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Geef een
nummer","input",JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
            intNum = Integer.parseInt(input);

            if(prevNum < intNum)
            {
                prevNum = intNum;
            }

        }
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Het grootste getal is:
"+prevNum,"getal",JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);

    }
}

// FindMax.java
import java.util.*;

public class FindMax {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        if (args.length == 0) {
             System.out.println("Usage: java FindMax [number] [number]
[number...]");
        }
        String max = Collections.max(Arrays.asList(args), new
Comparator<String>() {
                public int compare(String a, String b) {
                     return
Integer.valueOf(a).compareTo(Integer.valueOf(b));
                }
        });
        System.out.println("The largest number is: " + max);
    }
}

// End of FindMax.java

javac FindMax.java
java FindMax 10 -10 42 -301 4213 4444