Implementing Linear Search

 
public class SearchTester
{
  // seek target in the array of strings.
  // return the index where target is found, or -1 if not found.
  public static int search(  array,  target )
  {

    . . . . . . // implement linear search

  }

  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
    final int SIZE = 20 ;
    String[] strArray = new String[ SIZE ] ;  

    // put values into strArray
    strArray[0] = "Boston" ;  strArray[1] = "Albany" ;
    strArray[2] = "Detroit" ; strArray[3] = "Phoenix" ;
    strArray[4] = "Peoria" ;  strArray[6] = "Albany" ;
    strArray[7] = "Houston" ; strArray[8] = "Hartford" ;
    
     // call the static search method
    int where = Searcher.search( strArray, "Peoria" );
    
    if ( where >= 0 )
      System.out.println("Target found in cell " + where );
      
    else
      System.out.println("Target not found" );

  }
}