public final class LinearSearch { private static final int[] data = {3, -4, 2, 7, 9, 12, -5, 23}; public static void main (final String[] args) { final int x = Integer.parseInt (args[0]); int index = -1; for (int i=0; index==-1 && i<data.length; i++) { if (data[i] == x) { index = i; } } if (index == -1) { System.out.printf ("Did not find %d%n", x); } else { System.out.printf ("Found %d at position %d%n", x, index); } } }