i am working on a program using stacks. what i have so far is reading in the line and pushing operands/operators into their respective stacks. My teacher has us using a MyArrayList class, therefore we have to extend to that class and use its methods instead of using the Stack methods from the api. I was wondering how I can refer to the top of a stack? I want to use a similar method such as the peek method from the Stack api that would let me know what is at the top. This is what I have so far:

import java.io.*;


class Prog3<T> extends MyArrayList<T>{


static int p1;
public static int prec(char op1){
if(op1 == '*' || op1 == '/') p1=2;
if(op1 == '+' || op1 == '-') p1=1;
p1=0;
return p1;
}
public static void main (String[] args){
MyArrayList<Character> operators = new MyArrayList<Character>();
MyArrayList<Character> operands = new MyArrayList<Character>();


BufferedReader keyboard = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String line = null;
while(true){
System.out.print("Enter an expression: ");
try{
line = keyboard.readLine();
char a=97;
char m=109;
char op1, op2;
for(int i=0; i < line.length(); i++){
if(line.charAt(i) == ' '){
;
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '/'){
op1 = (Character) operators.peek();
op2 = '/';
if(operators.isEmpty()){
operators.push('/');
}else if(prec(op2) >= prec(op1)){
operators.push(op2);
}else {
operators.pop();
operators.push(op2);
}
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '*'){
op2 = '*';
operators.push('*');
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '+'){
op2 = '+';
operators.push('+');
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '-'){
op2 = '-';
operators.push('-');
}else if(line.charAt(i) >= a && line.charAt(i) <= m){
operands.push(line.charAt(i));
}
}
}catch(IOException e){}
if(line.equals("end")) return;
System.out.println(operators);
System.out.println(operands);
}
}
}

If you're only allowed to use the methods defined in the MyArrayList class, then that depends entirely on what methods are in that class. I'm assuming it has a push() and pop() method, so you can "fake" the peek method by pop()ing something off, saving it into a variable, and immediately push()ing it back onto the stack.

for(int i=0; i < line.length(); i++){
if(line.charAt(i) == ' '){
;
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '/'){
op1 = operators.pop();
op2 = '/';
if(operators.isEmpty()){
operators.push('/');
}else if(prec(op2) >= prec(op1)){
operators.push(op1);
operators.push(op2);
}else {
operators.pop();
operators.push(op2);
}
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '*'){
op1 = operators.pop();
op2 = '*';
if(operators.isEmpty()){
operators.push('*');
}else if(prec(op2) >= prec(op1)){
operators.push(op1);
operators.push(op2);
}else {
operators.push(op1);
operators.pop();
operators.push(op2);
}
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '+'){
op1 = operators.pop();
op2 = '+';
if(operators.isEmpty()){
operators.push('+');
}else if(prec(op2) >= prec(op1)){
operators.push(op1);
operators.push(op2);
}else {
operators.pop();
operators.push(op2);
}
}else if(line.charAt(i) == '-'){
op1 = operators.pop();
op2 = '-';
if(operators.isEmpty()){
operators.push('-');
}else if(prec(op2) >= prec(op1)){
operators.push(op1);
operators.push(op2);
}else {
operators.pop();
operators.push(op2);
}
}else if(line.charAt(i) >= a && line.charAt(i) <= m){
operands.push(line.charAt(i));
}
}
}catch(IOException e){}
if(line.equals("end")) return;
System.out.println(operators);
System.out.println(operands);
}
}
}

I fixed up like you said but i'm getting an arrayIndexoutofRange exception and im not sure why

I fixed up like you said but i'm getting an arrayIndexoutofRange exception and im not sure why

like most Exceptions, arrayIndexOutOfRange as a name describes your problem. this 'll occur if you try to get the sixth element of an array which can store only five elements

is there any suggestion as to how i fix it...i've tried a couple of different ways but it comes up with the same error every time so i havent found it yet.

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