Help define table

Question

Hi All,
I've asked this before, but did not get the answer I was hoping for; maybe I didn't state my problem clear enough. Let me ask again. If I have a table as below(format is: int, string, string):
1, Todd, Smith
10, Chris, Lee
5, Sue, Wilson
How can I define it in Java as a look-up table? I started to code up this and is running to problems:
class myTable
private myTable() { }
class myRecord
int id;
String lastName;
String firstName;
public myRecord(int id, String last, String first)
this.id = id;
this.lastName = last;
this.firstName = first;
myRecord [] record =
(1 "Todd", "Smith"),
(10 "Chris" "Lee"),
(5 "Sue" "Wilson")
Because I don't want to instantiate this class and want to use it as a constant class, I can't create an array of myRecord without instantiating it. I want to be able to access this table by doing:
for(int i=0;i<myTable.record.lenght;i++)
System.out.println(myTable.record.id+myTable.record[i].lastName+myTable.record[i].firstName);
Am I even on the right track or totally lost? Any suggestion? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Is this more or less what you had in mind?class MyTable {
     static final MyTable instance = new MyTable();
     private MyTable() { }     //  defines a singleton
     class MyRecord {
          int id;
          String lastName;
          String firstName;
          public MyRecord(int id, String last, String first) {
               this.id = id;
               this.lastName = last;
               this.firstName = first;
          void displayRecord() {
               System.out.println(id + "\t" + firstName + "\t" + lastName);
     }     // end of class MyRecord
     MyRecord [] record = {      new MyRecord(1, "Todd", "Smith"),
                                   new MyRecord(10, "Chris", "Lee"),
                                   new MyRecord(5, "Sue", "Wilson")
     static MyTable getInstance() { return instance; }
     void displayTable() {
          for (int x=0; x<record.length; x++) {
               record[x].displayRecord();
}     // end of class MyTable
// TableDriver class is used for testing purposes
public class TableDriver {
     TableDriver() {
          MyTable mt = MyTable.getInstance();
          mt.displayTable();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          new TableDriver();
}Mark