missing return statement 106 and 123, any ideas??

[fulmont99]

Im writing an encription program and it keeps saying their are 2 missing return statements :cry: , any ideas?

public class EncryptedMessage
{


public static final int NO_OF_LETTERS = 26; //a-z incl
public static final int NO_OF_NUMBERS = 10; //0-9 incl
public static final int NO_OF_CHARACTERS = NO_OF_LETTERS + NO_OF_NUMBERS;



private String message;
public static final char[][] cipherArray =
{{'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z','0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9'},
{'!','"','£','$','%','^','&','*','(',')','_','#','@',':',';','{','}','','=','?','<','>','~','+','|','B','P','S','E','C','U','R', 'I','T','Y'}};


public EncryptedMessage()
{ message = ("");
}


public EncryptedMessage(Object o)
{   message = (String)o;
}


public EncryptedMessage(String s)
{   message = s;
}
public EncryptedMessage(int i)
{   message = Integer.toString(i);
}



public String encryptText()
{


//convert message to character array
char[] mess = message.toCharArray();
int len = mess.length;


//create a second array to store the encrypted text
char[] encrypted = new char[len];


//Get each cipher letter for each character and store in the character array
//outputText.
for(int i =0; i<=mess.length; i++)
{
encrypted=crypt(mess);
}


StringBuffer enText = new StringBuffer("");
//append character array to StringBuffer, convert to a String and trim off control characters
return ((enText.append(encrypted)).toString().trim());



}


public String decryptText()
{


//convert string to character array
char[] returnMess = message.toCharArray();
int messLen = returnMess.length;


//create a second array to store the encrypted text
char[] encrypted2 = new char[messLen];


//Get each cipher letter for each character and store in the character array
for(int i =0; i<=messLen; i++)
{
encrypted2=decrypt(returnMess);
}


StringBuffer enText = new StringBuffer("");
//append outputText to StringBuffer, convert to a String and trim off control characters
return ((enText.append(encrypted2)).toString().trim());



}


// All characters outside of the character subset should be left unencrypted.
public static char crypt(char c)
{
//look for the character in the top row of the cipher array
for(int i=0; i<=NO_OF_CHARACTERS;i++)
{
if(cipherArray[0]==c)
{
return cipherArray[0];
}
else
{
return c;
}
}
}


public static char decrypt(char c)
{
//look for the character in the bottom row of the cipher array
for(int i =0; i <=NO_OF_CHARACTERS;i++)
{
if(cipherArray[0]==c)
{
//return relevant encryted character or original character if not in character set
return cipherArray[0];
}
else
{
return c;
}
}


}



}

Thanx :lol:

[jerbo]

In both methods:
char crypt
char decrypt
You specify a char return type, but you are returning an char array type

char[] crypt
char[] decrypt

[jerbo]

Opps, I see you are returning char[][] not char []......change to char[][] :)

[fulmont99]

Opps, I see you are returning char[][] not char []......change to char[][] :)

Is their any way i could return a single char to the calling program? :o

[jwenting]

not using a function that returns an array...
You can of course return an array that contains only 1 element.

[jerbo]

I must appoligize again. I was looking at your code while getting ready to go out the door.
In your code above, you are actually returning one characher:

return cipherArray[i][0];

So your return type would still be char, instead of char[][].

Sorry about that

[fulmont99]

ok im returning one single char, therefore their should be no problem. But i am still getting the missing return statement message.

[fulmont99]

Its ok guys, i got it. it was returning a missing return statement because i had it returning the values from within a for loop.

I just changed the return to a char outside the loop.

Thanx anywayz. :lol: