Hi. i am creating a program in which a user can add a car, view the
list of car, delete a car and search for a specific car. i can't go
any further because i am having problems in creating a method of
adding a car using Arraylist. i know i can't return the whole
arraylist but then what am i suppose to return? i might have questions
later on about deleting. here is my code.
[code]
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Scanner;

class Car
{
    public String addCar()
    {
        String make="";
        String model="";
        String year="";
        ArrayList<String> cars = new ArrayList<String>();
        Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Enter make ");
        cars.add(make);
        System.out.println("Enter model ");
        cars.add(model);
        System.out.println("Enter the year ");
        cars.add(year);
        return cars;
        }
}

class AddEntry
{
 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
     Car car = new Car();
     Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
     String name;
     String phone;
     String address;
     int choice;
     System.out.println("*******************************************");
     System.out.println("\t Wellcome to Mike DealerShip ");
     System.out.println("*******************************************");
     do {
     System.out.println("Make a selection  ");
     System.out.println("1. Add a Car ");
     System.out.println("2. View car list ");
     System.out.println("3. Delete a car ");
     System.out.println("4. Quit ");
     System.out.print("Enter your choice plz: ");
     choice = s.nextInt();
     if(choice==1)
     {
         car.addCar();
     }
     } while(choice!=4);

 }
}
[/code]

error:

C:\Java programs\AddEntry.java:20: incompatible types
found   : java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String>
required: java.lang.String
               return cars;

Thanks for the help. and yes for searching i am thinking of using
linear search but i read the api and i saw this iterator very useful
in arraylist. any comments ?