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Thread: How to make a program quit?

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    Default How to make a program quit?

    Hello All, I am brand new the forums and have been working with Java for a few months now.
    I have a few questions:

    1. How would I go about making a statement that will quit when the user enters quit?
    I am asking the user to input some data but want the program to stop when the user inputs quit.

    2. Not sure if this is just more of a preference or something that should be done but I am wondering if when creating variables should they be initialized to something such as a 0 or " "?

    example:
    int number = 0;
    String name = "";

    Thanks!


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    Default Re: How to make a program quit?

    Quote Originally Posted by copelandtml View Post
    How would I go about making a statement that will quit when the user enters quit?
    I am asking the user to input some data but want the program to stop when the user inputs quit.
    And what part of this are you having trouble with? Getting user input? Doing different things based on something else? Exiting?

    Normally I'd tell you to investigate the System.exit() method, but I think something much simpler, like a nice structured if or case statement, would be much more appropriate.

    Quote Originally Posted by copelandtml View Post
    Not sure if this is just more of a preference or something that should be done but I am wondering if when creating variables should they be initialized to something such as a 0 or " "?

    example:
    int number = 0;
    String name = "";

    Thanks!
    That depends entirely on the context. Does the variable have a logical default value? Also, note that class variables already do have default values, even if you don't specify one.
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    Default Re: How to make a program quit?

    if u make a jbutton then put this in side of it
    System.exit(0);
    for example;
    private class ExitButtonHandler implements ActionListener{
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
    System.exit(0);
    }

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    Default Re: How to make a program quit?

    I'm having trouble with the exiting when the user enters quit.

    if(userInput == quit)
    {
    quit program? not sure how I would construct the if statement
    }

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    Default Re: How to make a program quit?

    if(userInput == quit)

    needs to be

    if(userInput.equals("quit"))


    If you want to keep the loop alive whilst the user enteres values, I suggest a 'while' loop.
    Then inside that you can add the 'if' statement.

    For example:

    boolean on = true
     
    while(on){
    // prompt for user input
    if(userInput.equals("quit")){
    on = false;
    }
    //
    }
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    Default Re: How to make a program quit?

    Quote Originally Posted by JavaPF View Post
    if(userInput == quit)
    needs to be

    if(userInput.equals("quit"))
    That's assuming that userInput is a String. It could also be that the user is using ints or something of the like (enter 0 to quit).

    OP- What I meant was, do it the other way. Instead of checking for user input to quit, check for everything else and let the quit fall through:

    while(userInput != quit){
       if(userInput == optionA){
          //do option A
       }
       else if(userInput == optionB){
          //do option B
       }
    }
    //when you reach here, the user has chosen to quit
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    Default Re: How to make a program quit?

    OK, what about
    	while ((!endResponse.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes")) & (!endResponse.equalsIgnoreCase("nO"))){
    			System.out.print("Sorry did not understand your response, try that again.");
    			System.out.print("Rembember enter \"Yes\" or \"No\": " );
    			endResponse = keyboard.next();}
    	if (endResponse.equalsIgnoreCase("no"))
    		break;

    Also can you do.
    if (userInput.equalsIgnoreCase(trim("yes"));  //?

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