What's the simplest way to pass an array of ints to a class

Question

Did I word that right when I called it a "class"? Anyway, doing the obvious doesn't work i.e. from the (String[] args) that occurs in every java program, I thought that using (int[] arg), where arg is an array of ints would work, but it doesn't appear to be as simple as that.

Answer 1

Here's my code:
// Construct a shape from user input
class Shape {
int sides;
     void Shape(int[] specs) {
          sides = specs[0];
class CreateShape {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          if(args.length < 3) {
               System.out.println("usage: CreateShape [number of sides], [side1], [side2], ...");
               return;
          int arg[] = new int[args.length];
          int i = 0;
          for(String s : args) {
               System.out.println("is is: "+i);
               arg[i] = Integer.parseInt(s);
               i++;
          if(arg[0] != args.length + 1) {
               System.out.println("You did not specify the correct number of sides");
               System.out.println("usage: Shape [number of sides], [side1], [side2], ...");
               return;
          Shape shape = new Shape(arg);
}I'm just getting one error now:
Shape.java:33: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor Shape(int[])
location: class Shape
Shape shape = new Shape(arg);
^
1 error
Edited by: psvm on Mar 31, 2008 11:43 AM