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Thread: Need help with While and For Statements

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    Default Need help with While and For Statements

    Okay, the code below works fine, it prompts the user to enter a sentence, makes sure it is a proper sentence, then checks how many words there are. What I want it to do is prompt the user over and over again (keeping track of the sentences entered) until one of the sentences contains a 'q' or a 'Q'. I've been trying to put another while around the whole thing but that doesn't work. I really am stuck.

    import javax.swing.*;
     
    public class ChurchAustinA2Q2 {
     
      public static void main (String [] args) {
     
     
        String prompt = "Enter one sentence. " ;
        String input ;
     
        boolean inputOk = false ;
     
        int loc ;
        int loc2 ;
        int letterCount = 0 ;
        int wordCount = 0 ;
        int charCount = 0 ;
        int sentenceCount = 0 ;
     
        char ch = 'x' ;
     
     
        input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, prompt) ;
        input = input.trim() ;
        loc = input.length() ;
     
        while ( ! inputOk ){
    		if ( input.charAt(loc-1) == ( '!' ) ){
    			inputOk = true ;
    		}
    		else if ( input.charAt(loc-1) == ( '.' ) ){
    			inputOk = true ;
    		}
    		else if ( input.charAt(loc-1) == ( '?' ) ){
    			inputOk = true ;
    		}
    		else{
    			inputOk = false ;
    			input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "That is not a proper sentence. " + prompt) ;
    			input = input.trim() ;
        		loc = input.length() ;
    		}
    	}
     
     
    	for ( loc2 = 0 ; loc2 < input.length() ; loc2++ ){
    		ch = input.charAt(loc2);
    		charCount++ ;
     
    		if (( 'a' <= ch && ch < 'z' ) || ( 'A' <= ch && ch <= 'Z' ) || ( ch == 39 ) ) {
    			letterCount++ ;
    		}
    		else{
     
    			if ( letterCount > 0 ){
    				wordCount++ ;
    				letterCount = 0 ;
    			}
    		}
    	}
     
     
     
    	System.out.println("\n") ;
    	System.out.println("Sentence Statistics ") ;
    	System.out.println("=================== ") ;
    	System.out.println("Sentences: " + sentenceCount) ;
    	System.out.println("Words: " + wordCount) ;
    	System.out.println("Word Characters: " + (charCount - wordCount) ) ;
    	System.out.println("\n") ;
    	System.out.println("A / a = ") ;
    	System.out.println("E / e = ") ;
    	System.out.println("I / i = ") ;
    	System.out.println("O / o = ") ;
    	System.out.println("U / u = ") ;
    	System.out.println("\n") ;
    	System.out.println("Average Word Length: ") ;
    	System.out.println("Average Vowels Per Word: ") ;
     
      }
    }


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    Default Re: Need help with While and For Statements

    Contains a 'q' or 'Q', or is a 'q' or 'Q'? These are two very different situations.

    Wrap your code inside a while statement, and make it's condition true (in other-words, an infinite loop). Then after the user has inputted a sentence, use the contains() method to see if the sentence contains any q's or Q's. Or, if you meant it has only one q or Q, then use the equals() method

    while(true)
    {
        // code before
        // get sentence code
        if (sentence.toLowerCase().contains("q"))
         {
              break;
         }
         // rest of code
    }

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    Default Re: Need help with While and For Statements

    Yeah, that's what I was doing before but it was not working properly for some reason. I figured out what I was doing wrong now though. Thanks, anyways.

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