Data Comparison Analysis

I have an to do a project that counts the number of comparisons made when searching an array of 1000 elements called list. One for binary search method and a hybrid method of searching. But that is beside the point. For simplicity and neatness I would like to contain everything into one method call. Maybe BinarySearch(list, target) and HybridSearch(list,target). The problem comes when I have to return both the number of comparisons made and the index of the target. I am sure there some ultra easy way to do this that I am not seeing.

Anyone?

Returning an array with two members is a reasonably elegant way to do this, and it'd be the obvious solution in most languages.
Since Java is an enterprise language, though, you obviously need to store the results in an XML file somewhere and retrieve it after the method was called.