Trying to solve the hashtable problem;

Question

this is a test of a part of my programming, trying to solve the hashtable
i took out the erronous part and change some of it.i'm trying to print out a table of data with 4 column
import java.util.*;
public class test {
     // creating a global hashtable name "b" its
     //static just for the convieniet of it
static Hashtable b = new Hashtable();
public static void addItem(String keyid, String t, double p, int q){
// array size of 4 for my value in hashtable "b"
String [] array = new String [4];
// puting all my variables into string array
//including my keyid as the first in array[0]      
     array[0]=keyid;
     array[1]=t;
     array[2]= String.valueOf(p);//casting of double type to string
     array[3]= String.valueOf(q);//casting of int type to string
     b.put(id,array);//setting key = id and value = my array[]
public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception {
     String numb = "009", piss="theone";
     double cost = 19.50;
     int a = 1;
     String [] testItem;
     addItem(numb,piss,cost,a); //call of method additem;
     Enumeration e = b.keys();
// Get all values
while ( e.hasMoreElements())
{            tempItem = (String [])e.nextElement(); **// error msg here**
     System.out.println("array element 1"+tempItem[1]);
     System.out.println("array element 2"+tempItem[2]);
     System.out.println("array element 3"+tempItem[3]);
this is my error msg "ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.String;"
1 =====>cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable id
location: class test
        b.put(id,array);//setting key = id and value = my array[]
2 ===>cannot find symbol
symbol : variable tempItem
location: class test
tempItem = (String [])e.nextElement();
3 ====>cannot find symbol
symbol : variable tempItem
location: class test
System.out.println("array element 1"+tempItem[1]);
is there anyway to solve this or anyone can provide me with an alternative way of printing a table with 4 col?

Answer 1

you should learn to post your code inside code tags
mangotree wrote:
1 =====>cannot find symbol
symbol : variable id
location: class test
b.put(id,array);//setting key = id and value = my array[]there is nothing called "id"
mangotree wrote:
2 ===>cannot find symbol
symbol : variable tempItem
location: class test
tempItem = (String [])e.nextElement();
3 ====>cannot find symbol
symbol : variable tempItem
location: class test
System.out.println("array element 1"+tempItem[1]);there is nothing called "tempItem"
mangotree wrote:
this is my error msg "ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.String;"
here you are iterating through the keys of the hash table ("b.keys()"), and your key is a String, not a String[; perhaps you want the value instead?