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C# C# Objects Loops and Final Touches Foreach Loops

Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points
Posted by Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points

Data mismatch problems

I've been trying to fix this problem in many ways unsuccessfully. Please give me an idea how to fix it.

thanks,

FrogStats.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class FrogStats
    {
        public static double GetAverageTongueLength(Frog[] frogs)
        {
            int count = 0;
            double acum = 0.0;

            foreach ( int x in frogs )
            {

               acum = acum + Convert.ToDouble(frogs[count].tongueLength); 
               count +=1;
            }
            return acum / count;
        }
    }
}
Frog.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class Frog
    {
        public int TongueLength { get; }

        public Frog(int tongueLength)
        {
            TongueLength = tongueLength;
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

It looks like you have the right idea, but a few issues:

  • if you iterate through frogs each item will be a Frog, not an int
  • you won't need to index into frogs since you will have an individual Frog item in the loop
  • you don't need to convert the lengths into doubles to add them to the accumulator
  • the property name is "TongueLength" (with a capital "T")

UPDATE: This type of loop ("foreach") does not give you an index like a "for" loop would. Instead, it gives you one of the items from the collection. So instead of "int x in frogs" you might write "var frog in frogs". Then instead of "frogs[x].TongueLength" you might have "frog.TongueLength"

Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points
Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points

Thanks Steve. It seems that I am almost done but I ran out of ideas with getting to the TongueLength property. I am getting a CS0020 error and I tried everything that my limited C# knowledge permits. Can you be more specific with the Frog and frogs in the loop? In the for loop excersise, the frogs[x].TongueLength worked. Not working in the foreach loop and don't know why?

Thanks,

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

You could re-write the challenge using a "for" loop, but I assumed you wanted to use "foreach" instead. It's a good choice, and I added an update to my answer above.

If you're still having trouble, show the code that you have at this point and I'll take another look.