[Ljava.lang.String;@5b6f7412 error

[spring briar]

i tried googling how to fix this but I can't find any solutions to it. The code is to ask user to enter the
student’s Id number whom they want to edit, then update the new student info in the array, anyone knows how to fix it pls?

[edgy shale]

<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

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[manic widget]

@spring briar is names an array? you would need to use Arrays.toString() method to print it on console

[spring briar]

yes names is an array

[manic widget]

or if you want to just print one value from array, then index it

[spring briar]

how do I do that?

[manic widget]

do you wanna print whole array or just one value?

[spring briar]

oh the whole array

[blissful flicker]

yeah then like bee said you gotta wrap it in Arrays.toString(...)

that method will turn it into a readable format

[manic widget]

dont forget to import Arrays class as well

[spring briar]

is this what you meant? sorry I haven't learnt that

[manic widget]

yes and you have to import the class as well

java.util.Arrays

[spring briar]

it doesn't seem to work?

[blissful flicker]

it does work

look at the beginning

[spring briar]

it only printed the values except for the one I entered, but I'm trying to replace the old name in the array to the new one that i entered

or is there a simpler way to do it?

[manic widget]

im confused, could you tell us more about what is that you wanna do when user enters the value?

[spring briar]

so for example the name stored in names[j] in sarah, but now I wanna change it to emma

emma is the name that the user inputs

[manic widget]

You can replace the value at particular index, like say names[0] has "sarah" as its value then to change that you need to replace it with some other value like names[0]="emma"

[spring briar]

i did this step already, names[j]=updatedName, (updatedName is the new name the user inputs)

but i just wanna print the whole array out to check if it works or not

[manic widget]

well like i mentioned, Arrays.toString(inputArrayHere) prints your whole array, if you just wanna print say a particular value then do names[index] inside sysout

[spring briar]

okay i think i got it

thanks a lot for your help!