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A supermarket wants to reward its best customer of each day, showing the customer’s name on a screen in the supermarket. For that purpose, the customer’s purchase amount is stored in an ArrayList and the customer’s name is stored in a corresponding ArrayList. Implement a method public static String nameOfBestCustomer(ArrayList sales, ArrayList customers) that returns the name of the customer with the largest sale. Write a program that prompts the cashier to enter all prices and names, adds them to two array lists, calls the method that you implemented, and displays the result. Use a price of 0 as a sentinel.

So far I'm having a problem inputing the numbers/ names into the array by keyboard using a for loop. This is what i have so far;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class TopCustomer {

    public static String nameOfBestCustomer(ArrayList<Double> sales, ArrayList<String> customers) {

}

public static void main (String [] args){
    ArrayList<Double> sales = new ArrayList<Double>();
    ArrayList<String> customer = new ArrayList<String>();
    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);        
    System.out.print("How many Customers are there?");
    int num = in.nextInt();

    for (int i = 1; num <= i; i++) {
        System.out.print("Enter name of customer " + i + ": \n");
        customer.add(i) = in.nextString();
        System.out.print("Enter how much customer " + i + ": \n");
        sales.add(i) = in.nextDouble(); 
    }
}

}

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use customer.add(in.nextString()); same for sales. –  Braj Mar 13 '14 at 0:02
    
I'm still getting an error: cannot find symbol customer.add(in.nextString()); –  Sjanes227 Mar 13 '14 at 0:23

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you have 2 errors here i have corrected them below

for (int i = 0; i < num; i++){
    System.out.print("Enter name of customer " + (i+1) + ": \n");
    customer.add(in.next());
    System.out.print("Enter how much customer " + (i+1) + ": \n");
    sales.add(in.nextDouble()); 
}

first your for loop should be formatted the way i presented becuase otherwise it was always ending instantly unless there is only 1 customer and also the .add() method you were using automatically adds what is inside to the end of the array list.

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Thank you for the help! I'm still getting an error: cannot find symbol customer.add(in.nextString()); –  Sjanes227 Mar 13 '14 at 0:41
    
sry, i updated that line, try using the update –  mig Mar 13 '14 at 0:50
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Your error is here:

for (int i = 1; num <= i; i++) {

If a user inputs a num greater than 1, this loop will terminate immediately. Want you want it is:

for (int i = 1; i <= num; i++) {

You are also adding in the data wrong. Instead of this:

customer.add(i) = in.nextString();

and 

  sales.add(i) = in.nextDouble();

Do,

customer.add(in.nextString())

and

sales.add(in.nextDouble());
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