Making a highscores table

Question

Hii - im a beginner at java, and i've been trying to make a highscores table for my game (who wants to be a millionaire)
it compiles perfectly and runs, but everytime i enter the method at the end of the program, it crashes
can someone look at my method and try to find the problem? thanks so much =(
     public static String [] highscores (String [] name, int amount2, int m) throws IOException
          String [] highscores = new String [100];
          int [] scores = new int [100];
          int i, j, t = 0;
          String temp = "asdf";
          String [] Stringscores = new String [100];
          readScores(Stringscores); // reads file that i save my scores into
          readNames(name); // reads file that i save my names into
          for (int a = 0; a < Stringscores.length; a++)
               scores[a] = Integer.valueOf(Stringscores[a]).intValue();
          scores[m] = amount2; // m is the number of times the player plays the game (first time they play, m = 0, second time they play, m = 1, etc)
          Stringscores[m] = Integer.toString(scores[m]);
          for(i = 0; i < scores.length; i++)
               for(j = 1; j < (scores.length - i); j++)
                    if(scores[j-1] < scores[j])
                         t = scores[j-1];
                         scores[j-1] = scores[j];
                         scores[j] = t;
                         temp = name[j-1];
                         name[j-1] = name[j];
                         name[j] = temp;
          for (int a = 0; a < scores.length; a++)
               Stringscores[a] = Integer.toString(scores[a]);
          saveScores(Stringscores); // saves elements of array to file
          saveNames(name);
          for (int a = 0; a < Stringscores.length; a++)
               scores[a] = Integer.valueOf(Stringscores[a]).intValue();
          for (int k = 0; k < scores.length; k++)
               if (name[k] != null)
                    System.out.println(name[k]);
                    System.out.println(scores[k]);
          return highscores;
     }

Answer 1

and my advice for you: post something that actually answers people's questions.He brought you much much closer to getting a useful answer that people trying random advice based on tedious code-reading in an unfitting font and layout.
But you're free to choose to ignore the advice, you probably know better...
it compiles perfectly and runs, but everytime i enter the method at the end of the program, it crashesWhat do you call "crashing"? It core-dumps? It throws an Exception? It gives a wrong result? It loops forever?
Random try (based on my not reading the unformatted code): it throws an Exception. What is the Exception class and message, which line is it thrown at?
Edited by: jduprez on Jun 7, 2009 8:35 PM - removed dismissive comment on OP newbie status (warranted given the unbased gnawing at a helpful hand, but discouraging for other new users)