Need Help with my School Assignment - Error Message

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Hey guys,
I'm doing a school assignment for my Object Oriented Java programing class. Here's the assignment requirements:
"There are five kinds of flowers, and their associated costs. Create an array of strings that holds the names of these flowers. Create another array that holds the cost of each corresponding flower. Your program should read the name of a flower and the quantity desired by a customer. Locate the flower in the name array and use that index to find the cost per stem in the cost array. Compute and print the total cost of the sale. Write your solution in one class: FlowerCounterArray.
The solution should implement the following two methods:
- addOrder(String flowerName, int quantity) to add to the order. This is in addition to reading from the terminal.
- printTotal() to print out the total cost to the terminal."
I wrote up some code so far and I want to test it, but I am getting this error: "']' expected" on the newFlower[0] = new FlowerCounterArrays("petunia", 0.50]; line near the end of the code.
Here's my code:
public class FlowerCounterArrays {
    private String flowerName;
    private double price;
    public void addOrder(String flowerName, int quantity) {
        for (FlowerCounterArrays flower : newFlower) {
            if (flower.equals(flowerName)) {
                total = price * quantity;
                System.out.println("The price for " + quantity + " " + flower + "(s) is " + total);
            else {
                System.out.println("Unfortunately we do not carry that type of flower here.");
    public void printTotal() {
        System.out.println(total);
    FlowerCounterArrays[] newFlower = new FlowerCounterArrays[5];
    newFlower[0] = new FlowerCounterArrays("petunia", 0.50];
    newFlower[1] = new FlowerCounterArrays("pansy", 0.75);
    newFlower[2] = new FlowerCounterArrays("rose", 1.50);
    newFlower[3] = new FlowerCounterArrays("violet", 0.50);
    newFlower[4] = new FlowerCounterArrays("carnation", 0.80);
}Thanks for the help guys! Much appreciated!
Edited by: he4dhuntr on Oct 14, 2008 1:33 PM

Answer 1

Ok. I'm kind of new to all this, so some stuff I'm not 100% clear on.
I get what you're saying though. I put the array into the method.
Although now I get a new errod: "cannot find symbol - constructor FlowerCounterArrays(java.lang.String,double)"
I get this error on my newFlower[0] = new FlowerCounterArrays("petunia", 0.50); line
Here's my new code:
public class FlowerCounterArrays {
    private String flowerName;
    private double price;
    public void addOrder(String flowerName, int quantity) {
        FlowerCounterArrays[] newFlower = new FlowerCounterArrays[5];
        newFlower[0] = new FlowerCounterArrays("petunia", 0.50);
        newFlower[1] = new FlowerCounterArrays("pansy", 0.75);
        newFlower[2] = new FlowerCounterArrays("rose", 1.50);
        newFlower[3] = new FlowerCounterArrays("violet", 0.50);
        newFlower[4] = new FlowerCounterArrays("carnation", 0.80);
        for (FlowerCounterArrays flower : newFlower) {
            if (flower.equals(flowerName)) {
                total = price * quantity;
                System.out.println("The price for " + quantity + " " + flower + "(s) is " + total);
            else {
                System.out.println("Unfortunately we do not carry that type of flower here.");
    public void printTotal() {
        System.out.println(total);
}Thanks for the help so far!