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    The logic of my program works. I am having a hard time asking the user "do you want to do another? yes or no." and user would type yes or no, for the scanner class to read as a string. If the user types yes the program will start over if the user says no the program will say " Thanks for playing." I got it to print " Do you want to do another? yes or no" and used a scanner class. However the scanner class is not working. Can anyone help me... THanks in advance.

     import java.util.Scanner;
     public class test4 
    { 
    	public static void main (String[] args)
    	{
    		Scanner scan = new Scanner (System.in);
     
    		int userNum, total, addNum = 0, totalNum;
    		String play = "yes";
     
    		while ( play == "yes" && play != "no") 
    		{
    			System.out.println("Enter a number that is 3 or higher.");
    			userNum = scan.nextInt(); 
     
    			if (userNum >= 3)
    			{
    				for(int count = 3; count<userNum; count +=2)
    				{
    					addNum = addNum + count;
    				}
    				System.out.println("The sum of the ODD integers from 3 to " + userNum +  " is " + addNum);
    				System.out.println(" ");
    				System.out.println ("Do you want to do another? yes or no");
    				play = scan.nextLine( );
    			}
     
     
    			if(userNum < 3)
    			{
    				System.out.println("Error: The value must be greater than two");
    				System.out.println(" ");
    			}
    		}
    		while (play == "no")
    		{
    			System.out.println("Thanks Good Bye.");
    		}	
    	}
    }
    Last edited by Robsterr; October 19th, 2011 at 10:34 AM.


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    Default Re: Loop Help

    When doing a string compare use the function: String.equals(String)
    The reason is a String is an object and "==" is a binary compare. Two different strings which have the same content, are not actually identical.

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    Default Re: Loop Help

    while (play == "no") 
            { 
                System.out.println("Thanks Good Bye."); 
            }

    You know the impact of this code in your program?
    This will run an infinite loop saying your specified print statement.
    Better use if-else. That was just a suggestion.

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    i am having a hard time with this as well. would putting a 'do' statement in there make it easier? what would it look like? and where would the loop go exactly?

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    Default Re: Loop Help

    Quote Originally Posted by mbae View Post
    i am having a hard time with this as well. would putting a 'do' statement in there make it easier? what would it look like? and where would the loop go exactly?
    You put that loop there? Tell us, why do you need to use loop???
    You just want him to say good bye, why don't you just try it once??? I mean why loop?

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