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here is what i changed it to which works but isn't ideal from a user's standpoint:


public static void collectInfo()
{

double firstW=0;
double secondW=0;
double payRate =0;
double...

is it possible to override anything to get the response i want? maybe overriding the error so it doesn't keep the bad data? that explains why it keeps looping

Enter hours received for the first week of your paycheck.
If you have overtime, just add it to this for example: 3 hours of overtime is 43 hours that week
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this is how it would go but...

i tried what Greg did just now but it goes into an eternal loop

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right before i tried Greg's solution, i tried restarting the method when the exception occurred. that worked but...

Ahh ok I keep getting confused on the loop so I start off with it being true and I want it to remain true if the user puts in the right info. But when they cause an exception, I changed the true to...

The way that the code is setup now it won't loop at all I wanted it to loop back to give the user another chance to put in the right info.
The ! Should make it false right? And since firstWGood...

Sorry i'm new to all of this.

Sorry about that here's the edit:

I am trying to get user inputs (double types). so when i get a letter instead of a double i get an exception even though i had a while loop checking for this. so...

Sorry i didn't mean to hijack. well i have learned a lot from the online class as well as me being in school (the online class taught me more about coding than my school) technically i probably have...

i am looking for a mentor to help me with my first java application and hopefully one for android. I am in between schools and i just finished the intro to programming on udacity.com and i am looking...