Variable Content Checker

Question

Hi, I am trying to get this bit of code working,,,
The below code is meant to look into the first lot of variables and see if they are empty, if they are not the Boolean for that time is set to true. If not it stays as default ?false?.
Once this is done, it will go into a while loop, the variable locationMin and locationMax are the parameters of where the content is meant to be stored. Within the loop I have if statement that are meant to look within the location and see if there is content already within that variable. If content is found, it will move to the next location, until an empty location is found and this will make the Boolean ?false?.. This is done until all Boolean?s are false and the content is placed into an empty variable..
This is to stop writing over content already store previously, but it doesn?t seem to wont to work,.. Anyone with any ideas on what I am doing wrong.
Thanks
  public static void Location(String smnamet,String smstartt, String smfinisht,String smbreakt, String sdbreakt, String sanamet, String sastartt, String safinisht,  String sabreakt, String satbreakt,  String senamet, String sestartt,  String sefinisht, String sebreakt, int locationMin, int locationMax)
       //Setting them to the default value
       boolean m=false, a=false, e=false;
       //Checking if there is content within each section
       //m mean morning, a mean afternoon and e means evening
       if(!(smnamet.length() == 0))
            m = true;
       if(!(sanamet.length() == 0))
            a=true;
       if(!(senamet.length() == 0))
            e=true;      
       System.out.println("m "+m+" a "+a+" E "+e+ " Name m "+smnamet+" Name a "+sanamet);
      System.out.println("Min "+locationMin+" Max "+locationMax);
      //The loop will start at the veriable location start "Min" and
      //gone until it reaches the location end "Max"
      while(locationMin < locationMax){
            if(m == true){
                 //If the m Boolean is true (means content in storing variables)
                 //It will look at the location it will be store to see if it is empty,
                 //If empty it will change the Boolean to false and move onto the next section
                `//if not it will move up a location
                 if(smName[locationMin].equals(" ")) //length() == 0)//.equalsIgnoreCase(" "))//equals(" "))
                    m = false;
            else if(a == true){
                 if(saName[locationMin].equals(" ")){                     
                      //length() == 0)//equalsIgnoreCase(" "))//equals(" "))
                      a = false;
            else if(e == true){
                 if(seName[locationMin].equals(" ")) //.length() == 0)//equalsIgnoreCase(" "))//equals(" "))
                      e = false;               
            //This looks if each section ahs been checked and there is
            //No over writing of data within the main array variables
            if((m == false) && (a == false) && (e == false))
                 break;           
            //System.out.println(locationMin);
            locationMin++;      
      //The below code places the data into the correct location within the array and
      //in the correct variables
          if(!(smnamet.length() == 0)){          
               setMorning(smnamet, smstartt, smfinisht, smbreakt, locationMin);
          if(!(sanamet.length() == 0)){
               setAfternoon(sanamet, sastartt, safinisht, sdbreakt, sabreakt, locationMin);
          if(!(senamet.length() == 0)){     
               setEvening(senamet, sestartt, sefinisht, satbreakt, sebreakt, locationMin);     
     }

Answer 1

To fix it, it would serve you well to act like a debugger yourself, walking thru what the code would do given different sets of input.
Or you could run the code thru a debugger and step through what happens, noting where it does differently than you expected.
Or you could implement a "poor man's debugger", temporarily inserting liberal System.out.println statements in the code so you can watch, in a sense, what is happening at various points.
Any of the above are better for you in the end than just throwing your hands up in the air and asking someone here to try to find the problem(s).