Thread: can some please help me with this?

My question is, how can i stop the for loop from executing the else statement every time it cannot find a match for the searchInput? even if the for loop found a match for searchInput the for loop still executes the else statement. how can i deal with this?



here's my original code:

 
// The For loop executes the Else statement until a match is found for the if statement, how can i deal with this?
public void searchBook()
    {
    	String searchInput = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter Search Query: ", "Book Search", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
 
    	int x;
 
        try
        {
 
    	for(x=0 ; x<bookName.length ; x++)
    	{ 
    		if(searchInput.equalsIgnoreCase(bookName[x])) 
    		{
    			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Book Found !" + "\nTitle: " + bookName[x] + "\nAuthor: " + bookAuthor[x] + 
    				"\nPublisher: " + bookPublisher[x] + "\nBook ISBN: " + bookID[x] , "Book Search", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
    		}
 
    		else
    		{
    			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "BOOK NOT FOUND !" , "Book Search", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
    		}	
    	}
        }
 
        catch(Exception e)
        {
 
        }
 
    }

thanks in advance...

Maybe someone could.. if you had a question

Okay, how about you post a question outside of the code block, and post one with better detail.
If that is your original code, then "how do I deal with it" doesn't make much sense seeing as you're the one who put the else in there.

2 Simple ways to do it, you can either:
Remove the else all together, and instead use a boolean variable which is set to true if a match is found, but outside the loop you test if(!matchfound) and put the fail code in there; OR
Replace else with else if, and test if the current X variable is going to be the last time the loop executes and then print.