How to access internal Method?

How to access variable in one method from another method.?

• The title might sound confusing, so here is what I want to do: I am currently working on a school project, and I have to make a rock, paper, scissors game. I am almost done and only need one more thing. I have two methods (bigWinner and finalResult) In method 1 (bigWinner), I have the instance variables `int totalwins`, `int totallost`, and `int totaldraw`. public static String bigWinner (int totalwins, int totallost, int totaldraw) { System.out.println ("You won " + totalwins + " games and " + "The Computer won " + totallost + ""); if (totalwins > totallost ){System.out.print ("Congrats! You won!");} if (totalwins < totallost ){System.out.print ("Sorry, you lost.");} if (totalwins == totallost){System.out.print ("It's a draw.");} return ""; } Now, In my second method (finalResult), I have to tell who is the overall winner. public String FinalResult (int win,int lose) { win =; //Need Fixing lose =; //Need Fixing if (win >lose ){System.out.print ("Congrats! You won the game!");} if (win <lose ){System.out.print ("Sorry, you lost the game.");} if (win == lose ){System.out.print ("It's a draw.");} return ""; } As I added in the comments in the code, win and lose does not have a value. What I want to do is give the value of totallost and totalwins in bigWinner to win and lose like this : win = (VALUE OF totalwins, in bigWinner); lose = (VALUE OF totallost, in bigWinner); What could be done? Thanks in advance.

• Answer:

  For your bigWinner method, you are passing in the totalwins and totallost variables, so they must exist in the main function. Just pass those variables in from the main function to the FinalResult function. So in your main, you may have something like this (why does bigWinner return a string? Should probably be void): [...] returnString = bigWinner (winCount, loseCount, drawCount); then later.... returnString = finalResult(winCount, loseCount); [...] Remember, your function only exists in memory as long as that function is running. As soon as it returns it's result, it is cleared from memory along with any variables it may have been using. Think of a function as a black box. You can pass data into it, and it spits data out, but what happens in between that is out of your control. (From the perspective of the main function). Sorry, I know this probably doesn't make a lot of sense...