Check sum of two numbers to target in array

In this i'll be discussing about checking whether any 2 numbers in an array can add up to give a target number. For this, i have written a method which returns an ArrayList<String> which contains the expression that the two numbers can sum up to give the target. The logic is very simple that we need to check every element whether it can sum up with the every other element in the array. Now all those elements which can be summed to the target are added to the ArrayList. See how it works.

import java.util.*;

class TwoCanSum

{

	public static void main(String args[])

	{

	

	// Create Scanner object

	Scanner s=new Scanner(System.in);

	

	// Take no.of elements

	System.out.println("Enter the no.of elements");

	int n=s.nextInt();



	// Create an array of size n

	int[] a=new int[n];



	// Read the array

	System.out.println("Enter the elements");

		for(int i=0;i<n;i++)

		{

		a[i]=s.nextInt();

		}



	// Enter the target number

	System.out.println("Enter the target number");

	int target=s.nextInt();

	

	// Check whether any two can sum

	ArrayList<String> list=canSum(a,target);



	// Get the size, don't call in loop

	int size=list.size();



		// Print the elements

		for(int i=0;i<size;i++)

		{

		System.out.println(list.get(i));

		}



	

	}



	public static ArrayList<String> canSum(int[] a,int target)

	{

	ArrayList<String> list=new ArrayList<String>();



		for(int i=0;i<a.length;i++)

		{

			for(int j=i+1;j<a.length;j++)

			{

			 if(a[i]+a[j]==target) list.add(a[i]+"+"+a[j]+"= "+target);

			}

		}

	return list;

	}

}

Sample output of the program

Enter the no.of elements

5

Enter the elements

9

6

7

2

8

Enter the target number

15

9+6= 15

7+8= 15

Explaining the logic of TwoCanSum

ArrayList<String> list=new ArrayList<String>(); Create an ArrayList<String>.

for(int i=0;i<a.length;i++) Loop a.length times where a is the array given as parameter. This loop gets the element at i.

for(int j=i+1;j<a.length;j++) The value of j will be i+1 and this loop is rotated until j equals a.length. When j equals length of the array, the loop breaks. This loop gets every element other than the element at i.

if(a[i]+a[j]==target) Check whether the element at index i and the element at index j sum up to give the target number. Enter the if block if this condition is satisfied else skip if-block.

list.add(a[i]+"+"+a[j]+"= "+target); Add the string which contains the value of the elements which can be summed to the target along with the target number preceded by an =.

Consider 5 elements, then the elements are checked for sum like,

a[0] checked with a[1],a[2],a[3],a[4]

a[1] checked with a[2],a[3],a[4]

......

return list; Returns the array list.

In this way, we can check whether two elements in an array can be summed to give the target number.