what I am trying to do is, I have a UTILITY package and I wanted to make a class GetArray with a method get, which creates an array and return that array, also *I wanted to make this method* `generic` so I could create what ever type of array I wanted to.

The problem is in the statement `arr[i] = in.next();` in the loop.
*ie, how would I assign values depending on the type of the array I want to build*

```
public class GetArray {

    /**
     * @param takes a scanner varable
     * @return returns an array of all the elements you specify
     */

    public static <T> int[] get(Scanner in) {

        System.out.print("enter array size :  ");
        int ar_size = in.nextInt();

        System.out.print("arr elements: ");
        T arr[] = new T[ar_size];

        for (int i = 0; i < ar_size; i++) {
            arr[i] = in.next();
        }
        return arr;
    }
}

```

I will be calling this method from my main.java, and therefore I am passing the scanner to it