Using local declared variables in a different method in Java

Question

I am having a little difficulty with a school assignment, long story short I declared two local variables in a method and I need to access those variables outside the method : <

Answer 1

You can't access local variables outside of the scope they are defined. You need to change what is return by the method

Start by defining a container class to hold the results...

public class FeetInch {

    private int feet;
    private int inches;

    public FeetInch(int feet, int inches) {
        this.feet = feet;
        this.inches = inches;
    }

    public int getFeet() {
        return feet;
    }

    public int getInches() {
        return inches;
    }

}

Then modify the method to create and return it...

public FeetInch convertHeightToFeetInches(String input) {
    int height = Integer.parseInt(input);
    int resultFeet = height / IN_PER_FOOT;
    int resultInches = height % IN_PER_FOOT;
    Math.floor(resultInches);
    return new FeetInch(resultFeet, resultInches);
}