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Thread: How to make for loop work?

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    Default How to make for loop work?

    Actually the for loop works it's just that what I am having to do is pushed through with JOptionPane output. It will only print out the last part of the loop when it needs to print all the runs. This is what I have:

    //
    import java.util.Scanner;
    import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
     
    public class ApplianceTest4
    {
     
    	public static void main(String args[])
    	{
    		Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
     
    		String repeat;
    		int counter;
    		String choice;		
    		double purchase1;
    		double purchase2;
    		String message="";
    		int chosen;
    		String amount;
    		int x;
    		String amount2;
    		int y;
    		int i;
     
    		Appliance app1 = new Appliance("washer", "Kenmore", 102956, 299.99);
    		Appliance app2 = new Appliance("stove", "GE", 8956, 575.75);
     
    		repeat = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter how many purchese are going to be made:\n");
    			counter = Integer.parseInt(repeat);
    		for(i = 1; i <= counter; i++)
    		{
     
    			choice = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Type 1 if purchasing washer or 2 for stove: ");
    				chosen = Integer.parseInt(choice);		
     
    			switch(chosen)
    			{
    				case 1: {
    					amount = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the amount of washers:\n");
    						x = Integer.parseInt(amount);
    					purchase1 = app1.getPrice() * x;
    					message = String.format("You purchased %s washers for $%.2f.\n", x, 			
     
    					purchase1);
    					break;
    				}
    				case 2:
    					{amount2 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the amount of stoves:"); 
    						y = Integer.parseInt(amount2);
    					purchase2 = app2.getPrice() * y;
    					message = String.format("You purchased %s stoves for $%.2f.\n", y, 			
     
    					purchase2);
    					break;}
    				default:
    					{message = String.format("Incorrect choice choose 1 or 2");
    					break;}
     
    			}
     
     
    		}
     
    		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, message + i);
     
     
     
    	}
    }


    Hopefully somebody can show me where I went wrong.
    Last edited by Dragonkndr712; March 8th, 2011 at 02:01 AM. Reason: Trying to get it in the proper format.


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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    I want to apologize now I am unsure what I did wrong when trying to put it in the proper format.

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    The formatter's picky about spaces.

    So [highlight=java] (no spaces) is the correct syntax, where-as [highlight = java] (with spaces) won't work properly.

    I'm a little unsure of what you mean by printing out only the last part of the loop, could you perhaps provide sample inputs and outputs?

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    When the loop runs it wants to know how many times to repeat. It does this just fine but when it comes to the last runthrough of the loop where it should print out all of the messages it only prints the last time through the loop.

    For instance, you say 3 times through it should print out three messages in one JOptionPane dialog box. But it only prints out one message.

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    The problem is you're re-assigning the value of message to a new string, rather than simply appending to it. This erases all the old messages.

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    Ok, how do I fix that?

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    message += "your message goes here";

    An alternative (if you're interested in performance, though with modern day computers and this situation this is a non-issue) is to use the StringBuilder class since it is designed to work with mutable strings (appending, changing, etc.).

    StringBuilder message = new StringBuilder();
    message.append("your message goes here");

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    I'm sorry I am a newbie and I do not understand what this does.

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    In both sets of code it tells you how to append to a string. For String objects, the + operator is defined as appending two strings together (the += operator similarly appends and re-assigns). Note that with string objects, you must re-assign the results back into a string since Strings are immutable (i.e. can't ever be changed), so the result of the appending is a new string.

    In you code above, you have code that works something like this:
    message = "";
    message = "this is message 1\n";
    message = "this is message 2\n";
    message = "this is message 3\n";

    However, this is re-assigning a completely new string to message rather than appending it. Rather, you need to be appending to the message string.
    message = "";
    message += "this is message 1\n";
    message += "this is message 2\n";
    message += "this is message 3\n";

    I'll leave fixing your code to implement this up to you.

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    Default Re: How to make for loop work?

    thank you that did it.

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