Passing to a method.

Question

I have a String array in my main method called "names" it holds several names of people.
What I want to be able to do is create a new method called doBubbleSort(). Creating the bubble sort is not a problem for me... but I don't know how to go about setting up the method so I can pass the "names" array to it for use within the method. Also, how do I go about returning it again so I can output the changed Array.
Thanks.

Answer 1

This isn't a bubble sort or anything but it's just a little sort programme I made to demonstrate passing string arrays as arguments.
import java.util.*;
class passArray
     public static void main(String[] args)
          String[] strNames = { "John", "Mark", "William", "Emma", "Jane" };
          // Display Names in current order
          System.out.println("The names in the current order are:\n");          
          for(int i = 0; i < strNames.length; i++)
               System.out.println("\t" + strNames);
          // Pass the string array to another method
          strNames = sortNames(strNames);
          // Display Names in the sorted order
          System.out.println("\n\nThe names in the sorted order are:\n");          
          for(int i = 0; i < strNames.length; i++)
               System.out.println("\t" + strNames[i]);
     public static String[] sortNames(String[] strNames)
          Arrays.sort(strNames);
          return strNames;